Today I received an email from a friend who had been flirting with the concepts of Getting Things Done for quite a while. He had followed Lifehacker off and on, read a few articles elsewhere, and even tried implementing some of the concepts, albeit...
Topics: control, Getting Things Done, GTD, perspective

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The nature of bootstrapping requires every entrepreneur to fill multiple roles at once. Often, one or more of these roles is outside of the entrepreneur’s previous experience and comfort zone. Whether its industry knowledge, technical experience,...
Topics: development, entrepreneur, Entrepreneur's Toolkit, Entrepreneurship, learning, toolkit

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What would happen if employees pressed managers for results as often as managers required them from employees?  What would happen if you defined success as creating solutions, rather than completing tasks? What would happen if everyone in your...
Topics: Business Sense, empowered employees, success, the power of if

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We talk about virtual assistants fairly frequently at The Upwardly Mobile. But since it’s been a while, and since it’s more important now than ever to save time and money, here are 50 tasks you can give your virtual assistant that will help...
Topics: Creating Wealth, efficiency, Productivity, va, virtual assistant, Virtual Assistants

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I fell in love with Getting Things Done about two and a half years ago. I was planning for an extended, six-month stay abroad in Germany, and I had too much to do and too little time to do it. The simplicity of disecting projects at the action level and..
Topics: Business Sense, Getting Things Done, perspective, weekly review

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