A few months ago - April 14th, 2016 to be exact - I received a very nice note from a former student. It read: Good morning Justin, I am ardent follower of your blog - Art of Advice. We all in consulting look at you like super human when it comes to time management and productivity. You are managing [Read More]
The idea of “flexibility” has become a proud flag flown atop just about every company in corporate America. But what is flexibility? In my mind, flexibility is placing value on the needs of your team and employees and recognizing that those needs must be balanced with the needs of the company/projec [Read More]
To an Excel jockey, true happiness is normalized data. There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a normalized data set and quickly snapping together a pivot table and drilling down on every imaginable column heading. Oooooohhhh, just thinking about pivoty goodness makes me smile. One of the f [Read More]
Every year I do an informal poll of colleagues, friends, family, students and clients about how they keep their tasks and to dos organized. After all, most people have some kind of system that works for them. Many people respond with: Post-It Notes Notebook that combines meeting notes and action i [Read More]
