Kick the Clutter to Reverse a Bad Day
By Tim Berry
Bad day? Frustrated? I’ve found a few times that I can get through one of those days by finding those chores that I put off. You know the ones I mean … paying bills, calling about the insurance, scanning documents, keeping the books, organizing emails … these are all things I know I have to... Read More »
I’m Loving the New Version of Business Plan Pro
By Tim Berry
If you’re a regular reader you know I don’t normally do sales pitches here on this blog, but this is special. Last week Palo Alto Software introduced a brand new version of Business Plan Pro incorporating (finally) my Plan-as-You-Go Business Planning ideas into the mainstream of the software. With this new version, when you start... Read More »
Magic of Metrics. Tyranny of Metrics. Management of Metrics
By Tim Berry
The tyranny of metrics is that I keep looking at my page views on this blog, my subscriber count, my Klout score, my blog rating, and I can’t stop. I have to keep blogging, tweeting, and conversing, or else it goes down. There is no taking a pause, no relaxation, or my rating goes down. There’s... Read More »
The Brain Scientist’s Insight From Inside Out
By Tim Berry
She’s a brain scientist who studied the brain “from inside out” when she had a stroke. We should listen to what she discovered. And what we have to choose from. If you don’t see the video embedded here, you can click this link to go to the original on TED.com. Read More »
Folk Wisdom Reversal: Necessity Isn’t the Mother of Invention
By Tim Berry
This will be hard for anybody under 50 to believe, but there was a time when word processing and spreadsheets were a real productivity advantage. Are you old enough to remember Visicalc, or maybe SuperCalc? In the very early 1980s, most business people still did budgets with paper and calculator. The spreadsheet power user was... Read More »
Stage Fright Can Be Good For Your Career
By Tim Berry
I’ve noticed a pattern with myself, public speaking, and fear of speaking. I wonder if this holds true with others. I think it was good for me that my job required a lot of speaking even when I was still pretty young. Before I was 25 I’d done radio and standup television for UPI out... Read More »
5 Survival Tips for Work Overload
By Tim Berry
I like Nate Riggs’ 5 Survival Tips for Work Overload over at Nate Riggs & Social Business Strategies. These are pretty good tips, and we all need reminders. This is just a summary, Nate has a lot more on the original post. Forget about emptying your email inbox. Set a reasonable task list by day.... Read More »
Productivity is as Productivity Does
By Tim Berry
Work differs. The other day somebody told me about the problem of getting into some kinds of work. It went something like this (paraphrasing): With computer programming it takes more time to get in and out of it. You can’t just stop to talk, or answer an instant message, and then continue. Interruptions make a... Read More »
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