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Welcome to The Structure Blog!

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.

18 Apr

A pat on the back for the downhearted


Datum: 2017-04-18 11:15

Some days are just so busy. You work and work, and suddenly the workday is over. Suddenly it is Friday again. And before you know it, it is time for a holiday. The intense workdays turn into ...

09 Apr

An interview in Psychologies magazine


Datum: 2017-04-09 14:21

Recently, the British magazine Psychologies interviewed me about how get more organised. Among other things, I shared ...

03 Apr

Could you get too much of the good stuff?


Datum: 2017-04-03 16:01

During an interview I gave the other day I was asked ”Isn’t there a risk that we structure things too much?”. I understand this concern, and I ...

03 Apr

When the pen beats the laptop


Datum: 2017-04-03 15:35

What is best - making meeting notes using pen and paper or writing them digitally on a laptop or a tablet? As in so many other situations ...

27 Mar

“Super Structured” available as ebook


Datum: 2017-03-27 21:35

Did you know that my newly published book “Super Structured: How to overcome chaos and win back time” is also available as an ebook?

If you prefer to read books in ...

27 Mar

The deceiving urgency and how to avoid it


Datum: 2017-03-27 17:24

There is something paradoxically wonderful and thrilling about not prioritizing at all, but just improvising everything, putting out fires and doing what is either urgent, happens to come into our field of view or what we are asked by others to do ...

27 Mar

Beware of flags


Datum: 2017-03-27 16:42

You have the option of marking e-mails with flags in Outlook, Mail (OS X) and Lotus Notes, and with stars in Gmail. Many people I meet use this function for e-mails which contain something they need to do something with. They thereby create ...

20 Mar

What reminders do you need?


Datum: 2017-03-20 14:48

When did you last snooze a reminder? Was it this morning or just a few minutes ago? Or, do you not even use the reminder-function? A client asked me the other day about how to ...

13 Mar

Give yourself a daily dose of ambiguous


Datum: 2017-03-13 14:34

Done, done, done - don’t you just love the feeling of getting something done, when it is over, when we can cross it off our list, and when we have gotten one step further? I sure do. But somehow, some things never seem to get done ...

13 Mar

Place the most recent to the left


Datum: 2017-03-13 14:25

A great thing about digital material is that you can do a search for it. Or rather, we can let the ...

10 Mar

Interview in the Daily


Datum: 2017-03-10 17:18

Recently, global men’s style retailer Mr Porter’s blog the Daily interviewed me about ...

06 Mar

Automating something (more)


Datum: 2017-03-06 08:47

If we are keeping track of all the things we need to do, have organized the materials we need, and manage our flows of information so systematically that we feel on top of things ...

27 Feb

Play sliding-tile puzzle with your time


Datum: 2017-02-27 10:46

If you have plenty of meetings but not plenty of time between the meetings to do all those things you promised you would do before next meeting, you are ...

20 Feb

Allow things to take time


Datum: 2017-02-20 22:40

There is so much to do. We have a to-do-list of considerable length already and ...

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