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I Shared My OCD Struggles with 11,000 Employees—Their Responses Showed Me the Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership

Success

I sent the marked-up document back to her. Others shared that they had other mental health issues. Photo copyright: Saami Bloom / studio: INDIVIDUAL™. The internal communications manager who I worked with on my weekly emails sent me a draft, and as usual, I made a few tweaks. Most of them were from employees showing support.

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Ideas Aren't a Light Switch

The Marq

How about my physical ailments or health? Or I may decide to write about them if there are dramatic twists and turns as there were with our boy's health a few years ago. We can wait to bake ideas before putting pen to paper or keystrokes to a document. Copyright(c) 2017 TheMarq.com. How about bodily functions?

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Manage Your Paper With a RAFT

Ian's Messy Desk

We you receive document revisions, toss the orginals. Don’t keep routine memos or anything that gives you information you already know or have. Record meeting information on your calendar, then toss the memo.

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Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes

Ian's Messy Desk

If you are a Lotus Notes user, this long-awaited document is for you! Lotus Notes is the groupware of choice for my employer and GTD is my system of choice for keeping organized (however poorly implemented). The two have come together in an ebook from David Allen Company.

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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

Ian's Messy Desk

Tear/shred receipts, copies of credit applications, other documentation containing personal information, don’t just throw it in the garbage. Determine whether it will be shared with others. Minimize the number of identification and credit cards carried. Do not provide a Social Insurance Number unless absolutely necessary.

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Get organized for back to school

Ian's Messy Desk

Determine what documents you need for school registration. Assess what the kids have, what they need, what can be handed down and what needs to be thrown out. Then, with list in hand, hit the stores. Round up your papers. Eliminate last-minute searches. Organize your mornings.

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

Ian's Messy Desk

It doesn’t matter whether you use an electronic document system like Eric Mack , or a shoe box in your closet: if you can’t retrieve the information when you need it, the system is not effective. She understands the first measure of an effective productivity system: 1) You can find things that need to be found.