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This week, leadership and decision-making were highlighted, especially in terms of decision making skills. While here at Whakate we spoke of personality tests like the MBTI, the “All Things Workplace” blog wrote about a framework that incorporates the dimensions of “Sensing,” “Intuition,” “Thinking” and “Feeling” into the decision-making process. In Marshall Goldsmith’s anecdotal post, he placed leadership into focus with a lesson he learnt: true leadership is not about pointing out faults, which anyone can do, but about making things better.
It has been said that personal values remain preferences until they are tested. For many, the current economic climate is certainly bringing many forms of testing to personal convictions. In the pursuit of self-discovery, a number of personal effectiveness blogs urged readers to examine and reflect on their attitudes on adversity, resentment and failure.
An interesting feature in the September issue of Fortune Magazine (highlighted by GTD Times) compared the works of Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” James Loehr’s “Human Performance Institute,” and David Allen’s “Getting Things Done.” Oliver Starr, Editor-in-Chief of GTD Times, asserts that the three works will all yield significant benefits to users, and how effective each will be is much a function of the individual’s personality and their effort invested.
Also in this edition, prolific bloggers and writers Mark Forster and Steve Pavlina gave interesting interviews on their books and life.
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Finding Out How You Spend Your Time
Similar to Whakate’s own article Working With a Time Log.
The thread encouraged forum members to monitor their daily activities by systematically recording them. Some members suggested software such as Slife Rescue Time and Time Snapper for monitoring tasks on a PC.
An interesting link came out of the discussion regarding a simple productivity system called Getting Sh-t Done. A number of members admitted to reverting to simpler productivity systems like GSD after struggling with more complex ones such as David Allen’s popular Getting Things Done.
Get Organized Now
With a new member seeking help for disorganised habits, members recommended two methods to start off with: ETE (Erasing The Evidence) and Baby Steps. ETE involves clearing up after you have finished in a space, so that no one else would have been able to tell if someone was there before. “Baby Steps” implies 15 minute blocks of effort to organise stuff, an approach that can help anyone inch slowly toward the goal of being organised, without the fear of tackling a seemingly insurmountable task at one go.
Mark Forster’s Forums
Members shared their efforts to marry GTD and DIT. Many also listed the ways they found GTD and DIT useful in their own right; the former being unparalleled in capturing and organising information, the latter being one of the best ways to manage a day’s work. Mark Forster reminded the discussion that one of the most fundamental ideas to DIT was the need to realise that if one was not able to finish a day’s work, it means commitments, not tasks, should be audited.
Stephen R Covey’s Community
Participants shared their ideas about “excellence,” including “harmonising with the universe,” “exceeding one’s defined expectations,” “perfection” and a “consistent inspiration delivery.” Some commented that a definition of excellence was elusive, mostly because it depended on one’s own perspective.
Steve Pavlina
Mixed reactions dominated this discussion. Many felt that the lecture was boring and failed to present anything fresh. Steve Pavlina himself mentioned that the lecture “had no bite.” In the other camp, members stated that the talks remained an inspiration, not for the material covered, but for the well thought-out manner they were done in. Another member also brought up the fact that Pausch himself did the series of lectures for his children, who survived him.
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