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When we improve our structure, we create new things. We begin using ...

The researchers Mark, Gonzalez and Harris at the University of California have conducted a study on how often we get interrupted ...

Structuring how we work does entail a certain amount of standardizing, meaning we create ...

While vacationing on the shores of Swiss Lake Lucerne the week before last, I learned that my book Super Structured: How to overcome chaos and win back time has been awarded Gold Medal in ...

The new year is still fresh and more or less a blank page to fill. And even though your calendar might be filling up with appointments and engagements for the next year to come already, I am sure ...

People have always had various ideas on how to get things done with the least amount of ...

Many of those I meet during my lectures and who write to me feel stressed due to the seemingly endless ...

Setting due dates on all our to-do-tasks is a trap that is easy to fall into. I only recommend that people set a due date for a task if it actually ...

There are simple or fun tasks we race to the desk to get done as soon as they land on it, and then there are their opposites ...

We sometimes write notes. Well, most of us do anyway. We are on the phone and agree that we will do something, and to not forget it, we scribble it down on a piece of paper. We are in the middle of ...

Some us receive our fair share of cc’d emails, meaning we receive a copy of an email primarily intended for ...

There are some things that we believe we need to do but which seldom get urgent enough for us to ...

Setting goals when our work involves producing or selling something is fairly ...

Regardless what you think of New Year's resolutions, they are pretty common. And for good reason too. To many people ...

It became clear the other day how deceptive measuring our progress can be. I was discussing with a client what ...

It is definitely a good idea to divide larger tasks into smaller ones, since they are then ...

When we formulate what we have to do that we will not do immediately, a good way to appropriately ...

Have you ever suddenly realized that you just spent much longer than you intended browsing the ...

The number of alternatives of collaboration- and project management tools just keeps increasing as new ...

Occasionally we have a deadline before which the workload seems to increase, and our working speed certainly does. For some, this ...