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- The Productivity Show #41 - Productivity on the RoadDecember 31 2008
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Tony Goodson and Daryl Cook (GTD Buddies) talk about productivity or lack of it when you’re on the road for most of your working life. It’s about being inter-state with a Blackberry and laptop and still not being productive!Dividing your life into 15min chunks or eating chocolate
Catching up on things you normally do from your desk or at home
Maintaining your energy levels whilst being away
Myers-Briggs styles for generating energy and productivity - Introvert/Perceiving v Extrovert/Judging
Laptops and Blackberrys on planes and trains. Who are these people? Are they the Extroverts?
Back at the hotel room - TV and Mini-Bar or Productivity?
Hotels with no mini-bar and TV to aid productivity!
Going back to paper based productivity
Contexts for being productive and breaking up a long list of actions
Putting a sub-list of tasks on your mobile to get done whilst on the move
Filing from the hotel room, or gather everything together from the start and file it all
How much do you have to file? Do you file at home or at the office when you’re travelling a lot
Not using folders on Outlook- It’s sometimes easier to find things in a single folder and use Microsoft Desktop or
- The Productivity Show #40 - Tony Goodson (The host) interviewedSeptember 14 2008
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In this episode, Tony’s in the hot seat! Helping you to get to know your regular host a little better is guest host Daryl Cook, Tony’s GTD buddy.International Man of Mystery - where he’s from and why he’s now here in Melbourne, Aus. It involves a girl.
Kissing frogs - a bit about Tony’s work background in Sales: from IT to soft skills and training and dabbling in Psychotherapy. Lessons from psychotherapy applicable to training and group work.
Manifesto - the Gerry Maguire of sales? Tony is a fanboy of the Cluetrain and sees sales as a conversation. He talks about not having a fear of sales, and being able to having fun.
Dyslexia - candidly talks about being borderline dyslexic and how that has affected his productivity and personal development.
Teaching kids to read – one method is phonics. We mention a book Daryl leant Tony. Here’s the link to that: Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons.
Different learning methods - structure and draconian learning. School as a lock-up - social contract.
Blogging - blogging has helped with expressing his own voice. Tony has written the equ
- The Productivity Show #39 - Doug Fisher (Mission Control)April 6 2008
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Doug Fisher is President of Mission Control, a productivity methodology for increasing productivity and reducing stress. Sounds like Getting Things Done? Well here’s a comparison from someone who has done both; GTD-er’s Perspective on Mission Control. Mission Control adds a layer of time based action into your calendar, so that the things/actions you are going to do are set in time. Mission Control also looks at how you are being with the things you think you “should” do.We also talk about Team Productivity and High Performance Teams.
(Disclosure. I work for the company (JMW) whose owners also own Mission Control)
Accomplishing things and wanting to make things happen -What does it take and how can you be fulfilled in the doing of it.
How can the IT solution deliver on the promise to the end-user - Alter what people see as possible so they can accomplish a new realm of performance.
What is Mission Control? - Power! Having what you say realised. Producing the results you say you’re going to produce. Resourcing time and resources. Powe - The Productivity Show #38 - John Duckworth (Cognitive Weekly Review)March 24 2008
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My guest is John Duckworth. He wrote to me a few weeks ago with a short guide on doing the Weekly Review. He asked me to read the guide for him. Better than that, I invited him on the show. John has read a wide variety of productivity books, and combined that with cognitive solutions to getting the Weekly Review done.
Getting Thing Done - To help with software development.
Weekly Review - Needed improving and John looked at other systems to help do GTD.
Web Development - In Wigan, Lancashire
Mixed Nuts - The greatest productivity tool ever. John hates them and uses them with the guide of Aubrey Daniels. Need to reinforce something immediately after the something happens good or not. Getting off the internet. Mixed nuts worked best! Use something you hate, immediately, to reward yourself for bad behaviour!
Stopping things being a chore - Don’t see things like the Weekly Review as a chore, but something you’re motivated to do. Improve the thing you’re doing so you love it.
What is a weekly review - An hour per week, to review. But many don’t give the time over to fully do the review or something interrupts you.
Divide the Weekly Review into tasks - It might not end up as a single co - The Productivity Show #37 - David Gray (Global Geek)March 16 2008
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I thought it was time to go back to the technology of productivity, and who better than David Gray of the The Global Geek Podcast, to discuss all things geek and beautiful.Patient Admin Systems! - Tony sold ‘em, Dave now uses them. They record things like blood pressure straight into the patient record. They didn’t in my time! They now have bandwidth to move X-Rays. They didn’t in my time!
Frogs - Love of all things Frog
Getting Things Done - Dave needs the pressure to perform. Once you start, you stick with it. Use the deadline to drive you.
Geek Distraction - A disease. Cool stuff. Twitter.
Twitter and Second Life - Help or Hindrance to productivity? Twitter as a quick blogging and marketing communication tool. No need to engage in a conversation. It doesn’t have to be just a social networking tool. Make sure you control the tools and they don’t control you.
Twhirl - Twitter client running on