I recently wrote about staying on top of your company’s books and the tremendous information gains that result. I’m now in the process of analyzing my company’s 2006 year and learning a great deal about how the actual performance matches my expectations. One of my areas of needed improvement is bookkeeping - I am looking [...]

The new year has come, and hiding just behind the celebrations and the new year’s resolutions lists is the tax man waiting to strike. Taxes started for me in early January when I first put together a list of everything I needed to do to bring my corporation’s books up to date for 2006. It [...]

I love mind-mapping and find it to be an incredibly useful format for everything from planning an event to working out complex software architectures. It’s great because of the lack of constraints that it imposes on the thought process. It is similiar in many ways to the familiar brainstorming setup (and you can indeed use [...]

I’m not talking about your high school past here. We all make notes and jot down important information. A great habit to get into is writing down the date beside anything that isn’t going into the trash within a week. Meetings, school notes, scribbles on scraps of paper, the best way to remember is to [...]

Keeping busy and getting things done aren’t the same. Within any given time period we have a choice of what tasks to complete, with the inevitable result that not everything gets done (those about to argue should first make sure they exercised today, have their personal financial plan in order, and have scrubbed behind the [...]