Quiet-Quitting Is Stifling Business
ZeroHedge – On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero — Read on www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/labor-day-lament-quiet-quitting-stifling-business
Evernote Search
In digital environments, it’s far less important to organize and file information correctly (which takes decision making and time) than it is to use Search to quickly find what you want. It’s liberating to have all your business and personal information in one place and be able to quickly find and edit any information you need when you need it, no matter what the device – or where you are!
Evernote Capabilities
Here’s why Evernote is the right technology for our times: it’s a single, unified Cloud repository for capturing, storing, tracking and sharing virtually any piece of information relating to your life or business lets you quickly and easily access your information from any location, any device, any time scan everything, including receipts and handwritten notes and search for specific words inside those scanned copies search inside Microsoft Office docs and
4 Questions
Business owners and managers should ask 4 questions of their employees a couple times a year – with the intention to tweak their systems and make improvements based on the answers. What do you want to do more of here? What do you want to do less of here? What mistakes keep happening here? What works here? All employees have good insight into day to day operations. Their input is
Brad’s Top Apps
Know a few apps really well (and shortcuts) Brad Sayers Let me ask you: On your smartphone or computer, do you see icons that you never use? Why are they still there? Your brain needs to do micro calculations every time you look at that interface saying they are useless. It’s a tax to your brain system. Get rid of them. Being efficient is about removing barriers, bottlenecks and reducing
Digital or Disappear
Many businesses disappeared in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid-19 and the constraints that followed. More will disappear in 2022. However – all the large tech companies greatly increased their profits during Covid because they were already operating in powerful digital cloud ecosystems. This allowed them to quickly pivot in light of new constraints. For them, operating in the cloud was business as usual. Adding ‘curbside service’ because of Covid does not
External Systems
Remember the bad old days before the Cloud? It’s time to Set a New Direction! Doing business in the Cloud is business as usual today. The head is for having ideas, not holding them. David Allen David Allen’s big contribution to modern productivity was his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity where he emphasized the need to use trusted, external cloud systems. A trusted, external system like
Evernote at your Business
The challenge isn’t information overload, it’s ‘meaning underload’. Don’t burden yourself by thinking that you need to get more organized to keep on top. Let Evernote do the organizing in your life and business. It has powerful indexing and search abilities making it easy for you to access all your information from any device, from anywhere. It’s a game changer. And a life saver. Use it for: Any information you
Introducing Evernote
In this day and age, if you’re not confused, you’re not thinking clearly Burt Mannis The brain is for having ideas, not holding them David Allen, Getting Things Done, 2001 It’s a digital world and Evernote is the tool we desperately need today to have control over growing amounts of information. Operating a small business is more difficult than ever because of technology and exponential change. And if you hate
Not Your Parent’s Workplace
In this day and age, if you’re not confused, you’re not thinking clearly – Burt Mannis In a Post-Covid, weightless, right brained, knowledge economy, people will make their livings from thin air. From their home office. On Zoom. In their slippers. They will not have traditional “jobs”. They will retire in stages. They will produce nothing that can be weighed, touched or easily measured. Knowledge, Peopleness and Focused Value are
Permanent Whitewater
The phrase “Permanent White Water” was coined by Peter Vaill in the early 1990’s to describe the nature of intense, dynamic change that has no reprieve. Today, we know this intense change to be exponential and hugely anxiety producing. How to keep from being overwhelmed? develop your ability to tolerate uncertainty (it’s ok to ‘not know’) develop your ability to zero in on the most important matters (major on the
Flow
Everyone has heard of Flow. The literature on Flow comes primarily from a lifetime of global research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Me-high Chick-sent-me-high). He says: Thirty years of research and 18 books later, I have proved that the most obvious component of happiness is intense concentration. Intense concentration comes when a Challenge is matched by an Ability. When challenge and ability meet like this, it puts us into a Flow
Your Flow Triggers
What are your Flow Triggers? The things that put you into a flow state? Flow cannot be sustained through an entire eight-hour workday; rather, under the best of circumstances, flow visits you for a few minutes on several occasions – Martin Seligman We should learn what puts us in a flow state, because that will help us take steps to get more of it in our day or week. Ask
Art & Science
Below are two videos. The first video (Formula 1) is such a good example of old school clunky workflows where people bumped into each other and wasted time and energy. In 1950, they had some technology but no artful way of working together. You will smile. Then in Melbourne, in 2013, it’s all Art! The second video is Thomas Friedman explaining how in 2007, the world changed overnight because of
Top Skills Today
Below is as good a summary as you will find on the top skills required to succeed today. Understand yourself (know where you naturally focus your attention) Understand others (and the world) Use the best digital tools in the best ways How to keep up today: Information Handling and Document Control: digital skills, working and writing notes in the Cloud being able to recognize the need for a particular piece