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.
“I have always died a little on the inside when hearing words such as ‘structure’, ‘order’ and ‘routines’”, wrote a reader of my book on structure last week. I perceive this to be a rather common perspective on the subject in question. Perhaps it has to do with ...
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This week’s episode of Done! - No. 586 - is about a trick that ...
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Some of us save documents on the computer desktop. It may feel as a good idea, because then we can ...
We all need to work uninterrupted from time to time. When we have a difficult task before us it often requires ...
How often should you take breaks when working?
There's debate among experts, but ...
Sometimes a large task takes longer than we had anticipated. We thought we would have more than enough time to finish before Friday and even time to do other tasks, but something comes up and ...
Do you think of work when you are free - even if you don’t want to?
This week, episode No. 584 of Done! is about how to feel...
If you have promised to meet someone at a particular hour and then mistakenly book another meeting at the very same hour, you know how ...
I often ask the audience at my lectures if they receive a lot of email and I virtually always get a loud ”Yes!” shouted back at me, accompanied by ...
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When I gave a talk recently, one of the participants said: ”Yes, but if I make a to-do-list instead of having everything I need scattered on my desk, how am I supposed to ...
It is never pleasant when something big and overwhelming happens to or at our ...
Sometimes we simply have too much to deal with. We are already doing what we perceive as our very best and still we barely ...
During the break in the middle of a lecture I held the other day, one of the participants asked me: ”But what about all the ...
The first episode of Done! for the season is about a new feature in Outlook that I think everyone should try.
