Archive for October, 2010

Getting Smart About the Hierarchy of Smart (By Seth Godin)

Posted on October 25th, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

The only RSS feed I currently get is from Seth Godin’s blog.  He is beyond brilliant.  Here’s a recent post: Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart Don’t talk to all your employees, all your users or all your prospects the same way, because they’re not the same. The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition posits [...]

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One Of The Best Recycling Lists You’ll Ever Get (note: This Tip Sheet is a Keeper)

Posted on October 23rd, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

One Of The Best Recycling Lists You’ll Ever Get (note: This Tip Sheet is a Keeper) Last year, at a friend’s holiday party, I spotted her tossing several empty soda cans into the trash. I said that I thought she was a recycler and she said, “Yes, I am committed to recycling, but I can’t [...]

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Want to Avoid Getting Sidetracked? Own Your Interruptions!

Posted on October 22nd, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Imagine you are on a roll, engrossed in a project, in the “flow.” All of a sudden, the phone rings, an e-mail alarm goes off, a colleague is standing in your doorway, a fax is coming over the machine, etc. Ah, interruptions. If you didn’t define all of those as an interruption, think again. Experts estimate [...]

Look at Your Life Through Someone Else’s Eyes

Posted on October 13th, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

In The Organizing Sourcebook: 9 Strategies for Simplifying Your Life, Kathy Waddill shares the concept of looking at someone’s home ‘through through the eyes of a stranger,’ in order to learn about (and then better be able to assist) the person who wanted to be more organized.  Let us take this concept and apply it toward [...]

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