Radical Time Management
Notes and checklists, calendars and appointment books, project timetables and reminder systems – should managing time require so much… time? And once the training session is over, how many of these tools do we actually employ to effect in our working lives? Workshop takes place this Wednesday, two places remaining. Statistics tell a grim tale: most Time Management training is...
Read MoreSensei BBC Interview on Double Jobbing
Unless you’ve been on another planet, you know that ‘double jobbing’ – the practice of politicians holding on to two jobs at once – is big news in the UK and Northern Ireland. We’ve been told that double jobbing is ‘on borrowed time’ as far as NI is concerned. This is after threats of pay cuts and forced resignations for those who don’t...
Read MoreRadical Time Management Workshop Returns
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 I’m delivering a 1-day workshop as part of the Queen’s University Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Short Coruse Programme…for the second time. It’s name? Radical Time Management! Here’s the rundown. “Notes and checklists, calendars and appointment books, project timetables and reminder systems – should...
Read MoreThe Management Consultant Who Changed the World For the Worse
One of my favourite authors is the communications theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman. I found his classic book Amusing Ourselves to Death so powerful that I don’t own a TV. This makes for astonished intakes of breath at parties. But I find his analysis of contemporary society – that it more closely resembles Huxley’s decedent Brave New World than Orwell’s...
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