Tag Archives: Productivity

5 Steps to Achieving Great Things

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

If you want to achieve really big things. The kinds of things that people believe to be difficult, improbable or even impossible.  It will require passion, purpose, planning and the ability to execute actions. To accomplish them you [...]

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Productivity Wednesday #4 : Instapaper

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Learn to save digital content in a single location to read on your own terms later.

I apologize for the funky audio.  I was experimenting with a new microphone and the gain was set way too high.

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Productivity Wednesday #3 : Timeboxing with Minuteur

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Trying to revamp Productivity Wednesday. Get disciplined by time boxing the work you do.

Related Links:
Minuteur
Pomodoro Technique

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Sunday Review: Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Review: Practices of an Agile Develoeper by Andy Hunt

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Review: The Dip by Seth Godin

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Review: Good To Great by Jim Collins

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Book Review: Getting Things Done by David Allen

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

humbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.

Take Away: So simple, yet so powerful. We used to purchase this book and issue [...]

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Oblivious To The Things You Do

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Sometimes when you are in the heat of doing things you become completely oblivious to how things are being perceived by others.  At AgileOpenNorthwest we were talking about Agile software development and started to talk about Where Are Your Keys.  [...]

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1% Improvement Over Time Is Significant

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Who wants to be 1% better?  Not very many people.
Who wants to be 50% better? Significantly more people.
Who wishes they could be perfect? Most people.
I had heard the quotes “Perfection not a destination, it is a journey that never ends” [...]

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