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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.

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 ...

20 Feb

Write clear subject lines in your emails


Datum: 2017-02-20 15:49

When I am on vacation, I rarely answer emails. Since I have my own company, I still like to ”keep an eye on things”, and have been keeping that eye on my inbox during my time off, but I have really only ...

13 Feb

Getting a handle on your time optimism


Datum: 2017-02-13 15:52

Believing in yourself and having an optimistic approach to the world around you is wonderful, but optimism regarding how long something takes often comes back to bite you ...

13 Feb

Make it an even better year


Datum: 2017-02-13 15:45

Today is a new day. This year is not like the last. Even if time sometimes appear to be an illusion, we can regard this turn of the year as a transition into something new - a new chapter, that begins with a new, white page ...

07 Feb

The "Super Structured" book is here!


Datum: 2017-02-07 11:22

I am happy and excited to announce that my new book called “Super Structured - how to overcome chaos and win back time” is out now - published by ...

06 Feb

Enjoy nature and make fewer mistakes


Datum: 2017-02-06 16:17

Sometimes truly challenging tasks fall into our lap and we have to put all our resources to use to solve them. These tasks can be ...

28 Sep

Never again a forgotten PIN-code


Datum: 2016-09-28 12:00

If I recall it correctly it was when I gave a lecture at a Rotary-meeting a few years ago, that a man came up to me and excitedly said ...

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