Planning
Take advantage of concurrency opportunities
Listen to audio version One of my favourite productivity hacks is to take advantage of concurrency opportunities. This concept will be familiar to tho...
Do your habits serve you or satisfy you
Listen to audio version Some habits are useful. Others are simply comfortable. At work, we often repeat processes because they feel effective. We m...
Do new email features help or hinder?
Listen to audio version Microsoft continually introduces new features to tools like Outlook designed to make us more productive. Many of these additio...
A deep focus hack from my Uncle
Listen to audio version I lost my uncle Patrick McCarville last month. He was a great man and had a great life – a life most would not believe. He w...
Meetings: The protein of the business world
Listen to audio version As a child growing up in Dublin in the 1970s, I knew nothing other than ‘meat and two veg’ for dinner. My mother was a cap...
Identify your value
Listen to audio version What makes you valuable at work? It sounds like a simple question, but most people struggle to answer it clearly. They can list thei...