Smarter Egg

If you have an inbox in your office space for receiving incoming letters, faxes, memos and miscellaneous deliveries, then the chances are that you go through what’s in it on a regular basis and do something with its contents. You may elect to throw some stuff in the bin, file some things, put a few [...]

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Be Proactive? Is this a repeat of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?!
Not quite. But a fundamental principle that lies within Covey’s first habit is very appropriate here: ‘between stimulus and response lies the freedom to choose’. When it comes to e-mail, it appears many of us have given up that freedom to choose.
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E-mail has transformed how we communicate in the modern world. If you challenged someone in 1990 to send a detailed memo to multiple people located all over the world, their choices were limited. Most would have produced a paper letter, made photocopies and mailed/posted it to the actual addresses. Others would have faxed that letter [...]

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Many of us who have spent long periods working on our PCs would agree that it can be easier to perform certain functions when you have a larger display. Some enlightened organisations and individuals have understood this for years and have invested in the most appropriately sized monitors for each workstation. Some use one very [...]

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If you asked business owners & employers if they would be interested in introducing some minor behavioural changes amongst their employees that had been demonstrated (by studies from NASA and Harvard) to significantly boost productivity, wouldn’t you expect them to be eager to know more? Just watch their demeanours change when you inform them that [...]

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There are many factors that influence how productive we can be at a given point in time, including energy, focus, clarity of purpose, a structured approach and our capability to fight distraction and procrastination. One critical factor that is often overlooked is the environment in which we do our work.
Jeffrey Phillips has written an excellent [...]

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