Rethinking Productivity

Rethinking Productivity - Brass Tack Thinking

I think a lot of the ‘productivity’ set have it wrong. Or at least the messages are getting convoluted by those obsessed with their quest for inbox zero to little discernible end. Being productive isn’t about wringing every last minute out of every day doing something or checking stuff off a to-do list and building [...]

Help People Say Yes

Help People Say Yes - Brass Tack Thinking

This isn’t a post about learning to say “no” more often. I’m in the fortunate position that people often want me to be a part of their projects: content initiatives, PR campaigns, events, fundraisers, business partnerships, all kinds of things. That’s an awesome position to be in. It really is. Maybe it’s a position you [...]

Micromanaging Ourselves To Death

Micromanaging Ourselves to Death - Brass Tack Thinking

Each day, there are hundreds of blog posts written, book proposals submitted, teleseminars and webinars hawked and videos produced, all focused on the same set of principles. Making the most of everything. Productivity. Passion pursuits. Extracting something meaningful out of every drop of life, work, and otherwise. But are we trying too damned hard? Are [...]

Stop Shipping

Shipped

Some of you have noticed that I’m no longer on the sidebar of this blog — but I haven’t gone away. I’ll be back from time to time as a guest author, and often as a reader. Why the change? Well, I followed my own advice, offered here: Stop shipping. Or rather stop just shipping. “Shipping,” (Seth [...]

Playing the Zero-Sum Game

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I haven’t been around here much lately. I’m sorry about that. But I’ve been living one of the eternal truths of life: that time is a zero-sum game. I’m a systems thinker, which means I tend to think about how all the pieces and parts of things fit, and work, together. That also means I’m [...]

Four Secrets of the Super Productive

I actually don’t know if I’d be considered super-productive. But I do get asked a bit how I “manage to do it all”. I certainly don’t do it all, and I have my days where I’m woefully behind or buried or overwhelmed. What I DO do, however, is get the important stuff done on a [...]