by Kassandra Strout | Dec 23, 2016 | This Week In Business
You’ve probably read something, somewhere, about cutting down on the time it takes you to do one thing or another. Maybe it’s building a Rube Goldberg Machine or Sam Carpenter’s approach to a systems mindset (or, my own translation, ‘Everything...
by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 12, 2016 | This Week In Business
You may ask yourself why we separated the incoming messages systems with the outgoing message systems. (Missed the last blog post about systems for dealing with incoming messages? Click here.) For me, incoming messages are mainly reactive to while outgoing messages...
by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 7, 2016 | This Week In Business
If I was going to pick an area I felt least equipped to write about, it would be dealing with messages. I go through stages where I am super on top of things. Sometimes, I’ll completely miss a message only to get a polite ‘Um, did you get my text?’...
by Kassandra Strout | Dec 5, 2016 | This Week In Business
As we move about our day, we might see a blog post we want to revisit, or a video that looks interesting but can’t watch right this second. Maybe we have a cool idea for something but need to table it for later when you can give it more thought. It’s...
by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 2, 2016 | This Week In Business
When I think systems, I think people wearing suits, being filmed in high power meetings in conference rooms, smiling their capped teeth at the camera. Truth is, we are all already using systems whether we want to or not. A system is a process for doing something. You...
by Nicole Ouellette | Oct 25, 2016 | This Week In Business
It’s no secret that to be a good writer, it helps to be a good reader. And when I first started this business and time was short, I decided I was only going to read business books (and occasional biography of a business person helped break things up). I now read...