Emailing in the park

Let’s talk about email management – a topic no knowledge worker ever gets any coaching on. That is quite strange considering that email-related tasks take up about 25% of someone’s day at the office (source). It’s very difficult to be at your best when you are drowned in emails each day. This time can be greatly reduced and used for more lucrative and joyful projects. Do you want to know the magic trick of getting rid of unnecessary emails and to spend less time on processing emails? Then you have to know what the Email Boomerang Effect is.

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Setting Better Outcomes

Goals
Samurai Sword

Outcomes and goals are key to everything that we do, but few people set them properly. This article is about setting better outcomes in the context of daily outcomes within Agile Results, but the principles can be applied to any productivity system or goal setting methodology.

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Effective Brainstorming Using Mind Maps

Technology
Brainstorming with Mind Maps

Mind mapping is a great way to brainstorm ideas and to subsequently structure ideas into something that makes sense. It’s a great way to start off with dumping your thoughts in a graphical way and you can let your imagination run wild as you populate your mind map. However, most people who use mind mapping ...

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The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

Books
The Power of Full Engagement

If there is one book we would recommend for any intermediate and advanced Asian Efficiency nerds, it would be The Power of Full Engagement. Written by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr, the authors have studied many professional athletes over the years to figure out what caused some of them to excel at the highest level. ...

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How to Teach Someone to Mindmap (or, How to Learn Mind Mapping)

Technology
Head Case

One of the best ways to learn something is to try to teach it to someone else. In this spirit, we’re going to show you how to get started with the basics of producing effective mind maps – and then ask you to teach the same basics to someone else.

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Last Chance for AE Newsletters

Announcements

At the request of some of our long-time readers, we have made the decision to take our newsletter archive offline at the end of the week. Our newsletters are packed with cutting-edge not-safe-for-public-consumption content, and we want to reward readers who are on our mailing list by making it exclusive to them. This is a ...

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Essential Cydia Apps and Extensions

Technology
Essential Cydia Apps

Jailbreaking is the process where you bypass the limitation within iOS that Apple has set and it allows you to fully customize your iPhone (or iTouch/iPad). There are a lot of apps available in Cydia, the Appstore equivalent of jailbroken iPhones, that are not found in the Appstore because of the limitations within iOS. However, ...

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