Motivation for Productivity In their brilliant book, Switch, Chip and Dan Heath suggest the most important thing for being productive is to boost your motivation. (I rapped this book over at Book Rapper as Sticky Change) Think back to the last time you were trying to complete an important project. It’s likely you were motivated […]
Archive | Project Done
Project Done is our program for helping your complete your projects. This blog category includes many of things we talk about in this program. This includes:
- Motivation – both toward and away from visions
- Productivity – what’s the best way for you to design your work?
- Goal-setting – often we fail to achieve our goals because we choose the wrong goal to pursue
- Willpower – useful and insufficient by itself
- Habits – one of the most powerful forces we can employ to get more done with less effort
- Environmental design – the invisible force that shapes what we do and don’t do
- Rules – a simple way to promote innovation, flexibility and combat complexity
Review your Results in Two Simple Steps
Review Your Results Too many of us spend too long getting things done and not enough time learning from what we’ve achieved (or not). This is tragic when you can you review your results in two simple steps and dramatically improve your future performance. Imagine this… You’ve just finished your work (your day, your project […]
Getting Grit – Book Review
Book Review: Getting Grit Caroline Adams Miller; Getting Grit: The Evidence based approach to cultivating passion, perseverance and purpose. In creating Project Passion I had compiled a great selection of strategies for getting more done. (Many of them are in my book Done) When I read this book I realized I’d made a really big […]
Do More With Less
Do More with Less Do More with Less is episode #111 of the Ideas Architect Podcast. Here is the video and transcript… Are you stretched to your limits? Are you just hanging on? Life is fast – keeping up with all the software updates is tough let alone mastering them Everything is complex – even […]
Project Passion – Ship Smaller Sooner
Project Passion One of the big ideas in Project Passion is borrowed from the work of Scrum and the Lean Startup: the MVP. This is to overcome one of the big mistakes many of us make in our projects is to pursue perfection. We naturally start our projects with the view of the perfect result […]
Taruni Falconer – Cross-Cultural Leadership Habits
Taruni Falconer Cross-cultural communication expert Taruni Falconer helps people work in other cultures or coming to Australasia. Her role is to help them navigate their new cultural landscape and work settings. Effectively, Taruni Falconer is a Habits Coach. She help leaders communicate effectively in high-stakes situations and teaches them how to develop powerful habits and […]
Geoff McDonald – The Ideas Architect
Geoff McDonald: The Ideas Architect In this special 100th episode we turn the tables as Suzanne Mercier interviews The Ideas Architect himself Geoff McDonald – we talk about podcasting, board games, Book Rapper, Project Passion and purpose. The Ideas Architect Podcast In Episode 100 of The Ideas Architect Podcast we discuss: Why I created The […]
Project Passion: Inner Goals Over Outer Goals
Inner Goals One of the reasons that we fail to complete our projects is that we focus on inner goals and not outer goals. Have you ever considered that you might be working on the wrong goal? And, I don’t mean writing a book versus getting a new job. Heidi Grant Halvorson is a social psychologist […]
Business Strategy Rules Rule
Business Strategy Rules The big challenge around Business Strategy Rules and Project Design is to plan just the right amount. My first career was as an architect. Our role was to plan every single thing before any construction started. Whilst this worked for 50-storey skyscrapers, it’s unlikely to be the best way to design your […]
Stephen King – On Writing Book Review
I’ve just finished reading Stephen King’s book On Writing – A Memoir of the Craft. It’s kinda strange to say that a book sneaked up behind me and hit me over the head. And, that’s about what it feels like right now. Stephen King on Wikipedia I picked up this book looking for some words […]