Best Books 2017 for Business and Life
Best Books 2017 Best Books 2017? Over the past decade – since I started Book Rapper – I’ve often been asked by friends and colleagues to recommend my best books to read. During this time, I’ve read over 450 books fuelled by an annual goal to read 50 books. This year (2017) I made it […]
Top 10 Business Books for 2018
Top Ten Business Books of the Year What are the top 10 business books for 2018? And what is your book of the year? Each year, I aim to read 50 books. In 2018, I fell a few short and read 40 books. Still a good result. From this list of books I’ve selected my […]
Leadership Development: Best Business Books to Read
Leadership Development What are the best business books to read for leadership development? For a long while I had dismissed leadership development as a topic overblown by it’s own self-importance. For me, so many of the best business books that I had read (over 450 in the past decade) talked about leadership as if they […]
Best Business Books to Increase Productivity
The Best Business Books What are the best business books to increase productivity? I have a strong personal interest in this question. As I wrote in my book Done: How to finish your projects when traditional ways don’t work, I had a serious problem finishing things – at one point I had over 25 half-written […]
How to overcome your Project Management Challenges
Project management challenges Despite the best planning in the world, there are always going to be project management challenges. Typically, these include: Not meeting deadlines Unclear goals and objectives Team issues Communication challenges Technical problems Scope creep Risks to manage and avoid If you believe Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. […]
The Four Types of Planning in Management
What is Planning in Management? Planning in management is a crucial part of how to take effective action. But what is it and how do we do it well? Planning is such a common word, but what specifically do we mean when we say ‘we are going to do some planning’? The word ‘plan’ is […]
Accountability – what it is, why you need it, how to do it
Accountability Meaning, Definition What do we mean when we say ‘accountability’? I believe ‘to be held to account’ is an important management idea, except it’s almost become a cliché. Or, as political writer Don Watson might have called it ‘a weasel word’ – a concept we use to mask over what’s really going on. The […]
The Ultimate Guide to creating and completing your Task List Today
Project Tasks and Planning All task lists need to start with a project. One of the key reasons that I started Project Done and wrote my books Done and Weekly Done was to help other people get more done. What I often found when talking to people was that they had a big long task […]
The easy solution to being overwhelmed and stressed out at work
Feeling Overwhelmed? What does that mean? Are you stressed out and overwhelmed right now? I used to suffer a lot from overwhelm. I’d be in a situation and all of a sudden it would all get too much and I’d have a meltdown and let off some steam. What does overwhelm mean? And is there […]
Pomodoro Technique: Work smart and get more work done
Work Smart What’s the Pomodoro Technique and how can it help you get more done? We’ve all been told at some point that we need to work smarter to get more work done. But have you ever stopped to ask yourself: What does it mean to ‘work smart’? The holy grail of productivity is to: […]