Comments on: Managing Time http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/239 A blog about improvement in health care Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:17:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: robert thompson http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/239#comment-1903 robert thompson Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:57:51 +0000 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/239#comment-1903 Sounds like you need to apply the principles of Getting Things Done by Dave Allen. Allen’s philosophy is that to be one’s most productive self, one must be able to think clearly and to do this one must have completely downloaded from one’s short-term memory or all the "open loops": unfulfilled commitments one has made to oneself. This frees the mind to do naturally what it does best: think about things rather than of things. Once one has everything off his mind and written down, in paper or electronically, one has to decide, "What’s the next action?" This is THE critical question. Once this is decided, the action must be completed or tracked in a trusted system, such as a PDA. Rob www.rob-thompson.net www.63buckets.co.uk (lean) www.qualityhero.co.uk (six sigma) http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertthompson Sounds like you need to apply the principles of Getting Things Done by Dave Allen. Allen’s philosophy is that to be one’s most productive self, one must be able to think clearly and to do this one must have completely downloaded from one’s short-term memory or all the “open loops”: unfulfilled commitments one has made to oneself. This frees the mind to do naturally what it does best: think about things rather than of things. Once one has everything off his mind and written down, in paper or electronically, one has to decide, “What’s the next action?” This is THE critical question. Once this is decided, the action must be completed or tracked in a trusted system, such as a PDA.

Rob
http://www.rob-thompson.net
http://www.63buckets.co.uk (lean)
http://www.qualityhero.co.uk (six sigma)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertthompson

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