Nicholas Bate

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Occam's razor is a problem-solving principle stating Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. (Wikipedia) Thus: it was not a UFO, simply car headlights across the field. 

If there were an Occam's Razor of Productivity it would be stated thus: Among competing tasks the one with the highest long-term pay-off should be selected.

Productivity 1, The List

Productivity 2. The Meeting

Productivity 3, Energy

Productivity 4, Plan-Do-Review

Productivity 5. With Instant Comes Distraction

Productivity 6. Process vs. Content

Productivity 7: Less is More

Productivity 8: Match Energy & Resilience to Pay-Off

Productivity 9: White-board vs. Phone

Productivity 10: Search vs. Organise

Productivity 11: Get it Right First Time

Bonus: You, Only Better

D J Kurt Harden

Public Service Essential Mixes: Phil Collins.

July Redux 20

1. 22 Stupid Things Large Organisations Do.
2. It Beats in Black
3. Plan-Do Review.
4. More Than Just Coffee
5. Radical More 7
6. The Road Ahead
7. Whiteboard vs. Pen
8. Sun Rose, Coffee Flowed.
9. Less is More
10. Process vs. Content conversation.
11. 100 Word Story
12. Play More 7
13. 22 Ways to get Better Results at the Gym
14. How to become a Conference Speaker
15. Energy & Resilience vs. Payoff
16. Don't Give Up Yet
17. Planet Earth
18. Right First Time
19. Search More 7
20. Help More 7

Bonus 1: The All-time Popular Posts

Bonus 2: January 2016, Redux

Bonus 3: February 2016, Redux

Bonus 4: March 2016, Redux

Bonus 5: April 2016 Redux I

Bonus 6: April 2016 Redux II

Bonus 7: May 2016 Redux

Bonus 8: June 2016 Redux 

Bonus 9: You, Only Better

Bonus 10: The Essential Posts of 2015

Bonus 11: The Essential Posts of 2014

Bonus 12: The Essential  Posts of 2013.

Bonus 13: The Smart Bloggers 

22 Ways to Get Better Results at the Gym

1. Follow a system. There are plenty out there. Find one, and give it a chance.
2. Never, ever forget there are three parts to the system: nutrition, resistance (weights) and CV. All need to be addressed.
3. But within that there are plenty of options e.g. for CV running, dance, cycling, skipping...
4. And different proportions thus canoeing gives significant CV and tremendous arm building.
5. Do something.
6. Measure and record.
7. Notice improvements.
8. Accept plateaus.
9. Work hard enough. Breathing hard (but under control). Significant perspiration.
10. Buy some personal training every so often to
11. (1) raise your standards
12. (2) improve your form
13. Study fitness. What works? And what is hearsay?
14. Support the intensity and focus of the gym with high levels of general activity including
15. (1) walk everywhere
16. (2) climb everywhere
17. (3) stand a lot
18. Eat simple, local, clean with high proportions of vegetables.
19. Mobilise frequently to keep joints moving. Self-massage to remove aches and pains.  Read Kelly Starrett
20. Think Hunter-Gatherer
21. Remember rest is vital to good recovery: take complete rest days. 
22. And sleep long and deep. 

Bonus 1: Hunter-Gatherer 21 Century, Two Score & Ten

Bonus 2: 22 Things to do on Planet Earth

Bonus 3: 22 Ways to Feel Better, More of the Time.

Bonus 4: 22 Things They Still Don't Teach You at Business School

Bonus 5: 22 Stupid Things Large Organisations Do

Bonus 6: Slow 22

Bonus 7: The 22 Steps to Getting What You Want in 2016

Bonus 8: The Fundamental Problems with Powerpoint. Still. 22

Bonus 9: 22 Ways to be an Awesome Conference Speaker

Bonus 10: Love Presenting Hate (Badly Used) PowerPoint

Bonus 11: The 22 Fundamental Errors Large Organisations Still Make.

Bonus 12: Brilliant at the Basics of Business

Bonus 13: Routes to Less Stress 22

Bonus 14: That Other F Word

Bonus 15: What's Wrong with The Typical Corporate Selling Machine, 11

Bonus 16: 22 Reasons 79% of any Workforce is Woefully Unproductive

Bonus 17: 22 Ways To Create a Small, Simple, Start-Up.

Bonus 18: 22 Ways to Get Better at Anything

Bonus 19: 22 Routes to Becoming Unstoppable.

Bonus 20: Re-boot 22

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Morning

Create More 7

1. Go for quantity of ideas. Then look for quality.
2. Set a goal: 50 ways to reduce costs.
3. Disrupt. Do it standing up, outside. Talk to someone for 60 seconds. Flip the brain into a different direction and different mode.
4. Incubate. Leave the brain to work on it in 'background mode'.
5. Use De Bono's Six Thinking Hats.
6. Draw it. Paint it. Build it.
7. Turn ideas into action. Innovation=creativity PLUS action.

Productivity 11

11: Get it Right First Time.

Busyness is the new excuse. For being late, for poor manners and low quality. Any quality issue will come back to bite. Plan-Do-Review and execute brilliantly. First time. No excuses.

Productivity 1, The List

Productivity 2. The Meeting

Productivity 3, Energy

Productivity 4, Plan-Do-Review

Productivity 5. With Instant Comes Distraction

Productivity 6. Process vs. Content

Productivity 7: Less is More

Productivity 8: Match Energy & Resilience to Pay-Off

Productivity 9: White-board vs. Phone

Productivity 10: Search vs. Organise

Bonus: You, Only Better

Search More 7

1. Nutrition not just calories.
2. Results not just ticks on a 'to do' list.
3. Communication not just 'reply all'.
4. Substance not just show.
5. Movement & mobility not just 'gym'.
6. An evening not just Facebook catch-up.
7. Wisdom not just a qualification.

• Live Wild More 7
• Free more 7
• Remember More 7
• Create More 7
• Finish More 7
• Say More 7
• Music More 7
• Help More 7
• Radical More 7
• Notice More 7
• Consider More 7
• Cook More 7
• Play More 7
• Tough it out More 7
• Listen More 7
• Connect More
• Forget More, 7
• Be More 7
• Feel More 7
• Use More 7
• Productivity, More 7
• Think More, 7
• Walk More 7
• Read More, 7 
• Write More, 7

PLUS: You, Only Better

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