Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries Tagged as 'Productivity'

Enterprise 2.0, employees and profits

June 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Communication, Engagement, Enterprise 2.0, Management, Productivity, Social Networks · 674 views

Last night at PubCamp I led a small unconference session around Enterprise 2.0, employees and profits, overall it was Ok but not as good as I would have liked. A part of the issue was a couple of vocal participants in the front row who kept heckling the group the robust debate going, Duncan Riley [...]

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PubCamp Melbourne

June 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Engagement, Enterprise 2.0, Productivity, Social Networks · 520 views

I have been able to clear my schedule and can now attend PubCamp Melbourne on 23rd June. What is PubCamp and why should you attend? Glad you asked, from their site:

Understand the most important trends and technologies for Web 2.0 and beyond - social and citizen media, the semantic web, widgets, the shift to online [...]

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Innovating to Reboot

March 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Branding, Management, Personal, Productivity · 733 views

Over last several months I have gone through several changes in my life which has resulted in me reviewing many things.
I have been struggling with how to conduct this process, but I figured it is a bit like a reboot but I can’t really turn myself off and on again like a computer now can [...]

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Personal productivity and motivation

March 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Productivity · 935 views

Over the last couple of weeks I have had two discussions on productivity that struck home. recently.
Firstly how for many people they only get things done when there is a negative outcome for not doing things, ie they lack motivation. For example self financial fines or performance rating by managers. But what happens to the [...]

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Satisfaction does equal higher returns

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments · HR Management, Productivity, Work Life Balance · 1,271 views

A fairly common statement heard these days in organisations is “high employee satisfaction translates to higher earnings”. Gautam Gosh pointed me to a recent paper by Alex Edmans, a Finance Professor at Wharton which compares;
stock returns of companies with high employee satisfaction and compares them to various benchmarks — the broader market, peer firms in [...]

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Taking control of information overload

December 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Knowledge Management, Productivity · 1,181 views

Something I have been struggling with for about 18 months is information overload, who hasn’t, especially with regard to email and RSS feeds and to a lesser extend podcasts.
To date my method of coping has been to unsubscribe (I removed about 500 blog feeds) or ignore the stream of information (which I do with email [...]

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RIP - Marc Orchant

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Personal, Productivity · 902 views

Earlier today I got told that Marc Orchant has passed away. Marc suffered a massive heart attack last week and never recovered.
Personally I never met Marc but but I was lucky enough to hear him speak about productivity (GTD specifically) on several occasions. He was one of my Twitter friends and to my surprise even [...]

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Follow up on always on communication

November 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Communication, Management, Productivity, Technology · 1,084 views

Over the last 6 months I have written a few times about always on communication and the impact on workplaces, work life balance and productivity. Today is a follow up.
By the end of next week I will have had the Palm Treo 750 for 2 months. Verdict?
You take my Treo away I will hunt you [...]

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Calendar synchronisation

October 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Productivity, Technology · 1,749 views

Long time readers will know I have been searching for the ultimate calendar synchronisation system to keep my Corporate calendar, sync’d with my mobile device (now Palm Treo 750), with my Google Calendars (multiple). This has become more important now as one of the Google Calendars is being used to coordinate who is looking [...]

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My productivity tips

July 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Management, Personal, Productivity · 1,350 views

A couple of weeks ago Tony Goodson sat down and had a chat with me about productivity, being a productivity buddy, Twitter and life in general. The audio is not the best, Skype was playing up and we had to record in 3 different sessions but we got through it. Following recording Tony went [...]

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