Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have one project that is well underway in making things, with my own two hands. This results in staying up really late to finish a good book or whatever project I’m indulging in and throwing my sleep schedule out of whack. So this year, I am trying to slow down the pace to marathon, not sprinting. You can just write “Thx!”

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Many a time I''ve struggled with trying to remember when, what, and for whom as my email piled up. I need to mange anywhere from 10 to 20 projects ranging from three steps to fifty. I use its Three Important Things for today, this week, this month, along with its Monthly Sprints to help me focus.

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects. Andrew founded Wrike back in 2006 as a way to help people and companies work more productively, cut down on inefficient communication like email, and be more time efficient and cost efficient.

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Success

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Shifting to remote work has allowed some to get deeper into concentrated work sprints, followed by periods of rest, movement or other home-based obligations. Before she even had home internet decades ago, Paterson remembers taking a day to unplug, where nobody could contact her, to get through her hundreds of emails offline. “As

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 31, 2010

Cell phone providers that currently offer this type of cell phone and service plan are Boost Mobile, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. Wireless Internet access is possible with a Bluetooth enabled cell phone that has an unlimited Internet and data transfer service plan. This is done differently depending on the model of the cell phone.

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www.pickthebrain.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Workaholics of the world: start working smarter instead of keeping yourself up all night working on a project. Turn off your cell phone, close your email, get off Twitter, stop checking Facebook, stop listening to music, and focus while you’re doing your work. Life after all is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 19, 2016

A simple solution to this problem is to use a project management system that helps capture all your ideas in one place. We have decided to kill email and have instead resorted to using only our project management system for all internal communication. One thing that has been a real game changer for us is weekly sprints.

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Productivityist

JUNE 4, 2018

Dozens of projects have taught us that this sequence: before code, design; before design, content; before content, perhaps a photo shoot or set of interview questions to generate team bios; or, perhaps the office manager has high-red headshots somewhere but she’s on sabbatical in rural Thailand. Stop using a desktop client for email.

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www.pickthebrain.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Workaholics of the world: start working smarter instead of keeping yourself up all night working on a project. Turn off your cell phone, close your email, get off Twitter, stop checking Facebook, stop listening to music, and focus while you’re doing your work. Life after all is a marathon, not a sprint.

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