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At Stiernholm Consulting, we strongly believe that good structure strengthens productivity. This applies to us as individuals as well as for our organizations. Here, David Stiernholm, Struktör, shares his concrete tips on how to visualize, simplify and get more time for what is important.

Now is the second best opportunity

2010-03-10 09:16

This whole business of good structure – isn’t it sometimes the case that we really feel that we would need to work more effectively in our everyday life, but we just don’t know where to start? It’s just too much right now and we can barely keep our heads above the water.

We’ve got so little time that we don’t have the time to change the way we work, even if it’s in order to get more time to work with. It’ll have to be some other time, when we’ve got time.

But, if we continue like this, will the day when we have enough time to start working more
efficiently ever come? Do we really have to wait?

Not the way I see it. Right now is the second best time to start. The best time was yesterday.

So, let us now take only one simple step in the right direction. What would that be?

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"Done!" is on the top 100-list!

2010-03-09 08:43

This week, US website “Small Business Trends Radio” listed the 100 best small business podcasts of 2010.

In the category “Business news and the big picture”, they picked my ...

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The struktör's eight tools

2010-03-03 09:27

To be a ”struktör” is very much about visualizing; to clarify what at first sight might be experienced as messy. By structuring and visualizing you make it all apprehensible and tangible. Then it will be easy to see what is big and what is small (it can be problems, opportunities or something else), what’s important and what is not so important, what the next natural step will be et c.

This type of work is a lot easier if you have well adapted tools, tools which you are comfortable with and enjoy working with. The struktör’s eight tools are:

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