Dealing with Distractions
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Dealing with Distractions. How to get things done and get past the distractions at work or in life to become more productive.
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Dealing with Distractions
- 2. WHAT DISTRACTIONS DO • Snatch Ideas • Choke Productivity • Stifle Creativity • Lead to Poor Code Quality • Sabotage Important tasks 2
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- 4. Pareto's law (80/20) Limit activities that you do Productivity over Hyperactivity 4 WAYS TO PREVENT DISTRACTION
- 5. WAYS TO PREVENT DISTRACTION Parkinson’s Law Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion (give yourself short timelines) 5
- 6. WAYS TO PREVENT DISTRACTION Batching to remove distractions Only check email at given times 6
- 7. WAYS TO PREVENT DISTRACTION Blocking time to remove distractions During times of creative genius, turn IM to DND Book time in your calendar and go to conference rooms 7
- 8. WAYS TO PREVENT DISTRACTION The Pomodoro Technique - http://vimeo.com/94036800/ 25 / 5 - http://pomodorotechnique.com/ 8
- 9. WAYS TO PREVENT DISTRACTION Don’t be perfect. Deadlines over Details 9
Editor's Notes
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/opinion/sunday/a-focus-on-distraction.html?_r=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismemberment
- Hyperactivity vs. Productivity — 80/20 and Pareto’s Law: Being busy is not the same as being productive. Forget about the start-up overwork ethic that people wear as a badge of honor–get analytical. The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs. Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas: What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What are the factors that could account for this? Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses. 11. Deadlines over Details – Test Reliability Before Capability: Skills are overrated. Perfect products delivered past deadline kill companies faster than decent products delivered on-time. Test someone’s ability to deliver on a specific and tight deadline before hiring them based on a dazzling portfolio. Products can be fixed as long as you have cash-flow, and bugs are forgiven, but missing deadlines is often fatal. Calvin Coolidge once said that nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent; I would add that the second most common is smart people who think their IQ or resume justifies delivering late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gF2xUCdN0
- Hyperactivity vs. Productivity — 80/20 and Pareto’s Law: Being busy is not the same as being productive. Forget about the start-up overwork ethic that people wear as a badge of honor–get analytical. The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs. Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas: What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What are the factors that could account for this? Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses. 11. Deadlines over Details – Test Reliability Before Capability: Skills are overrated. Perfect products delivered past deadline kill companies faster than decent products delivered on-time. Test someone’s ability to deliver on a specific and tight deadline before hiring them based on a dazzling portfolio. Products can be fixed as long as you have cash-flow, and bugs are forgiven, but missing deadlines is often fatal. Calvin Coolidge once said that nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent; I would add that the second most common is smart people who think their IQ or resume justifies delivering late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gF2xUCdN0
- Hyperactivity vs. Productivity — 80/20 and Pareto’s Law: Being busy is not the same as being productive. Forget about the start-up overwork ethic that people wear as a badge of honor–get analytical. The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs. Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas: What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What are the factors that could account for this? Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses. 11. Deadlines over Details – Test Reliability Before Capability: Skills are overrated. Perfect products delivered past deadline kill companies faster than decent products delivered on-time. Test someone’s ability to deliver on a specific and tight deadline before hiring them based on a dazzling portfolio. Products can be fixed as long as you have cash-flow, and bugs are forgiven, but missing deadlines is often fatal. Calvin Coolidge once said that nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent; I would add that the second most common is smart people who think their IQ or resume justifies delivering late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gF2xUCdN0
- Hyperactivity vs. Productivity — 80/20 and Pareto’s Law: Being busy is not the same as being productive. Forget about the start-up overwork ethic that people wear as a badge of honor–get analytical. The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs. Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas: What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What are the factors that could account for this? Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses. 11. Deadlines over Details – Test Reliability Before Capability: Skills are overrated. Perfect products delivered past deadline kill companies faster than decent products delivered on-time. Test someone’s ability to deliver on a specific and tight deadline before hiring them based on a dazzling portfolio. Products can be fixed as long as you have cash-flow, and bugs are forgiven, but missing deadlines is often fatal. Calvin Coolidge once said that nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent; I would add that the second most common is smart people who think their IQ or resume justifies delivering late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gF2xUCdN0
- Hyperactivity vs. Productivity — 80/20 and Pareto’s Law: Being busy is not the same as being productive. Forget about the start-up overwork ethic that people wear as a badge of honor–get analytical. The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs. Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas: What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What are the factors that could account for this? Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses. 11. Deadlines over Details – Test Reliability Before Capability: Skills are overrated. Perfect products delivered past deadline kill companies faster than decent products delivered on-time. Test someone’s ability to deliver on a specific and tight deadline before hiring them based on a dazzling portfolio. Products can be fixed as long as you have cash-flow, and bugs are forgiven, but missing deadlines is often fatal. Calvin Coolidge once said that nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent; I would add that the second most common is smart people who think their IQ or resume justifies delivering late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gF2xUCdN0
- Hyperactivity vs. Productivity — 80/20 and Pareto’s Law: Being busy is not the same as being productive. Forget about the start-up overwork ethic that people wear as a badge of honor–get analytical. The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs. Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas: What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What are the factors that could account for this? Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses. 11. Deadlines over Details – Test Reliability Before Capability: Skills are overrated. Perfect products delivered past deadline kill companies faster than decent products delivered on-time. Test someone’s ability to deliver on a specific and tight deadline before hiring them based on a dazzling portfolio. Products can be fixed as long as you have cash-flow, and bugs are forgiven, but missing deadlines is often fatal. Calvin Coolidge once said that nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent; I would add that the second most common is smart people who think their IQ or resume justifies delivering late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gF2xUCdN0