Team Productivity

Make meetings count

One of the most common ways that we cause productivity friction in our team is through unnecessary and unproductive meetings. Not every meeting is unnecessary or unp...

Try making less noise

My upcoming book, Smart Teams is essentially about how we work together more productively, and how we reduce the friction we cause each other when we interact. One o...

Going beyond productive

If you've read my first book, Smart Work, I hope you are better for it, working in a way that is personally productive. But even in teams where everyone has had pers...

Track your project progress

At the start of 2017 I set myself a goal of taking a six-kilometre run every week for the whole year. I have not been 100% successful, but most weeks you’ll see me...

So you think you can multitask?

I was watching MasterChef the other night. OK, so there you have it. This is how I spend the hour a day I save using the Smart Work system! Three of the participants...