Tag: “Self-Improvement”

The world economy is changing and work as our parents knew it, where you could develop your career in a company for almost a lifetime, is already a thing of the past. Today’s technology is revolutionizing the productivity of businesses and how they work and communicate.

Creating and running a startup is a tough task. Fortunately, there are methods that teach you how to manage your day-to-day life and help you achieve the product your customers want. Methodologies such as Lean Startup draw a framework of action and put order in a process that has a tendency to chaos.

You may have already noticed that we don’t all function in the same way. What might work for you doesn’t suit your co-worker. Similarly, you may find irrelevant some of the methods others use. The way in which each of us think, learn, communicate, process information, carry out actions or make decisions greatly influences one’s personal productivity.

A few days ago, GTD Times — the official blog of the David Allen company — published a very interesting 3-minute video ¹ where David Allen talks about the five stages in the GTD lifecycle. He calls them The Five I’s:

Managing Oneself is a short book written by Peter Drucker in 1999 and published by Harvard Business Review. Drucker says in this book that today, in a society where most of us are knowledge workers and will have a useful working life of about 50 years, it is essential to learn to manage ourselves. Only then will we be able to place ourselves where our contribution is most valued at all times.