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Reflections on work hacking and self-management: practices, tools and routines to better organize, simplify professional life and work more effectively.

Think about your deadlines rather than your to-do lists.

We often reassure ourselves by thinking that the to-do list is the cornerstone of personal organization. It gives us a sense of order, it lists the things to do, we check them off, it fills up again, as if the act of doing so guarantees progress. But at the end of the day, the conclusion is often the same: lots of activity but little progress. It's not a question of method, or even willpower, but rather a physical or even mathematical issue. When we try to do more work than...

Think about your deadlines rather than your to-do lists.

We often reassure ourselves by thinking that the to-do list is the cornerstone of personal organization. It gives us a sense of order, it...

Prioritizing tasks: methods that don’t solve much

In a world where everything is urgent and information overload is the norm, there is a lot of talk about prioritization, and it is...

A few ideas to ensure you are more productive than busy

Although I strongly believe in the potential of the four-day week, I continue to view the subject with caution. Can it be applied to...

If it’s not in your calendar, it doesn’t exist.

Endless to-do lists, emergencies piling up, projects you try to move forward when you have a little time, days that go by without feeling...

Choosing the right channel at the right time: the neglected discipline of collaboration

There is no shortage of collaboration tools and in fact, we have never had so many. Email, chat, instant messaging, video conferencing, task managers,...

Why you should organize your week into 4 days even if you work 5 days

We are hearing more and more about the four-day week, but that is not really the subject of this article, which is less about...

Making yourself indispensable at work is the worst thing you can do

There are many false good ideas in the office and one of them is that it is in our best interest to make ourselves...

How can you avoid becoming a bottleneck in the workplace?

In the world before bottlenecks were machines that could not keep up with the pace of other machines and completely blocked the production process. The result:...

When you can’t solve a problem, you have to change the problem.

There are phrases, quotes, whose meaning is immediately obvious and resonates like the obvious. Others tickle your intellect without at first sight meaning anything particularly interesting...
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