What is the next action?

Most people, like me, have received a lot of advice over the years. Many have been extremely useful and implementable, others not as much.
The best form of advice that I have received from anyone (David Allen’s GTD book) has been the practice of asking, “What is the next action?” and immediately writing down both [...]

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Cubicles, knowledge workers and headphones.

Gone are the days when each knowledge worker had the luxury of an office.   Back in India, my dad had provided me with the luxury of having a big room for myself,  where I could lock myself up and work when required. I could play music as loud as I wanted late into the night [...]

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The wipers stay up…

It’s been snowing quite frequently now in New Jersey. Yesterday there was a snowstorm. It took me some time to dig my car out of the snow from home and almost ended up falling on my rear in the process. When I reached Vonage, I noticed something peculiar about a Toyota Siena parked in the [...]

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The written word: Why is Blogging so popular ?

If there is one tool that will make your office much more productive at minimal cost, it will be this: the white-board. Simply because any idea that is sitting in your head doesn’t become useful or actionable unless you put it down and then start thinking about it. The white-board facilitates this, [...]

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What leads to success?

Watch this 3 min video from TED by Richard John.
Here’s the summary slide from the presentation.

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Getting Things Done

David Allen is my favorite productivity guru. Here’s a presentation made by him at Google on “Getting Things Done”.

In case you want to read more, do a google search on the author, there’s tons of information available out there. Many people have modified his work-flow to suit their needs and so [...]

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