Tag: “Decision Making”

Decision making has a direct impact on your effectiveness. From the simplest to the most far-reaching decisions, every choice you make influences the direction your life takes. Effective decision making requires careful evaluation of options, consideration of short- and long-term consequences, and a willingness to take responsibility for our choices. This process requires significant mental effort, which in turn consumes much of our willpower.

In his book Making it all work, David Allen, creator of GTD (Getting Things Done), claims that there are two key elements in personal management: control and perspective. Or, as he called them in his first book, horizontal control and vertical control.

Optimizing productivity is the secret sauce for success in business. However, in today’s increasingly crowded and competitive market environment, where unpredictability is the order of the day, productivity has perhaps never been more important.

Setting routines is sometimes a controversial topic. There are people who love to have a solid structure to move through their day-to-day lives, and there are people – especially artists and people with very creative jobs – who don’t like to have any kind of strict schedule that might constrain their creativity.

Information overload is a phenomenon that has been studied and written about by researchers and experts in fields such as psychology, sociology, information and business science.