Many digital professionals like my friend Jason Velasco use Merlin Mann’s 2006 Inbox Zero approach to manage the daily 100+ emails digital professionals receive. Most ‘filer’ methods require the user to delete or folder all messages at least once a day to minimize the time lost constantly checking unread email and chat. I distinctly recall arguing ‘filer vs. finder’ approaches …
Harold Jarche coined the term Knowledge Artisan as someone ‘augmented by technology using their skills and networks to solve complex problems and test new ideas’. This term fits our KnowNow customer definition, even if modern consultants, product managers and researchers might not recognize themselves as Knowledge Artisans. Instead, many may identify as Digital Samurai, tech …
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Time toilets. That is what a friend calls meetings. Given the steady increase in meetings since the pandemic, it is hardly surprising that so many people think that most meetings are a waste of our precious time. What does a well-formed meeting look like anyway?
My days start with a quick review of unread messages, outstanding tasks and upcoming meetings to alert me to priority requests or blown deadlines. I promote action items to tasks linked to active projects or tag low priority items for later recall. My perspective shifts from tactical inbox trenches to my strategic projects and goals …
Every working day I triage my aggregated Unread from my various Inboxes and chat threads. Over the years I have used a wide variety of task systems to track items that cannot be done quickly. Task lists work when kept heavily pruned, but eventually I pause for a vacation or conference. My task list spikes, …
I always admired Merlin Mann’s unachievable ‘Inbox Zero’ aspirational strategy. Those rare times I cleared out my multiple Inboxes felt great. Then the volume in my multiple personal, firm and client siloes made that effort unfeasible. The Zero Inbox strategy drowned in the digital flood rising around us. Inbox Zero was born out of David …
The traditional concept of digital content ‘ownership’ may and should be threatened for digital professionals. Unless you are a pure solo digital creative, modern content creation is a collaborative, iterative team process. The value of your work product is directly tied to the recognition and engagement it generates with your team, boss and audience. Digital …
Andrew Chen’s The Cold Start Problem highlighted creation of atomic networks, the “smallest possible network that is stable and can grow on its own”, as the key to growing products and customers. The Campaigner digital working style builds connections and engagement to achieve coordinated goals with your internal and external networks. Would you like to …
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Ever look up at your screens and realize how many tabs you have open? How many is too many to keep track of? Every open tab represents a potential distraction to your current task. Studies show that it may take an average of 23 minutes to resume a task following a same or different context …
