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Geek To Live: The art of the doable to-do list - Lifehacker

There’s no better feeling than checking something off your to-do list. Yet it’s so easy to let a whole day or week go by without knocking one task off your list. How does that happen? Well, your to-do list must be a tool that guides you through your work. It all depends on how you write it.

FO - Lifehacker

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable

Eisenhower

Careers: Lessons from LeBron James and Michael Jordan on Teamwork

As a leader, you need to set up a work environment that suits the talent you have on your team. If some members need structure, give them structure. If others desire autonomy, you need to make sure you give it to them. Of equal importance is role clarity. Team members must know what they’re responsible for or they’re going to become frustrated and nine times out of 10, they’ll fail.

Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The tragedy of the commons is a type of social trap that involves a conflict over resources between individual interests and the common good. The term derives originally from a parable published by William Forster Lloyd in his 1833 book on population. It was then popularized and extended by Garrett Hardin in his 1968 Science essay “The Tragedy of the Commons”.[1] However, the theory itself is as old as Aristotle who said: “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it”.

ChiefInnovatorOnline.com: Better Isn’t Enough - You have to be different

Almost every corporation on our planet is on a quest to outperform its rivals in two key business activities – improve the performance of current business, and create the future for the business. The trouble with this is that few organizations do this well – they are either good at continuous improvement or good at innovation, but not good at both in a strategic, tactical and deliberate way.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life….Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

What Toyota can Teach You about Personal Productivity - lifehack.org

Toyota pioneered “lean manufacturing” based in large part on creating value in the eyes of the customer and having products being “pull” or demand-based that would be responsive to the customer rather than “push” or supply-based from the production end.

Lean manufacturing also includes identifying and minimizing waste (including inventory), empowering employees and aiming for perfection in the processes.

The ‘Toyota Way’ can also be applied toward improving personal productivity.

Painless Software Schedules - Joel on Software

Why doesn’t anybody make a schedule? Two key reasons. One, it’s a real pain. Two, nobody believes that it’s worth anything. Why go to all the trouble working on a schedule if it’s not going to be right? There is a perception that schedules are consistently wrong, and only get worse as time goes on, so why suffer for naught?

Here’s a simple, painless way to make schedules that are actually correct.

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