Systems
FAVORITE SYSTEMS and MODELS
GTD (Getting Things Done)
Getting Things Done, by David Allen was the first piece of productivity/effectiveness writing I’d read since sometime in the wee early eighties, and I probably could not have found better. Most compelling of Getting Things Done, has to be the idea of being reminded of hence being better able to accomplish actions or tasks, while actually in the context in which they should occur. Second for me is the idea of minimizing (ideally to 1) the number of in-boxes one has.
Site: David Allen:Getting Things Done
Manager Tools
Several years back, shortly after investing in a house and starting a family, I realized that I’d probably benefit from learning how to not be a horrible manager. I just didn’t want to be a really bad boss to anyone, and rightly suspected that I’d increasingly need to manage others, be these folks helping keep my family and house in order in any way, or in larger or more complex projects in my business endeavors. It was at that time with a quick topic search in iTunes that I found Manager Tools.
If you manage others, I strongly recommend the manager-tools podcasts. If you’re looking to better manage your career as well, then don’t neglect their careers-tools casts as well.
Let me know what you think.
Site: Manager-Tools.com
CultureSync – Tribal Leadership
I’ve been exploring and beginning to apply the CultureSync Tribal Leadership model for only a brief time, but it does resonate for me with a lot of what I’ve experienced organizationally both in for-profit companies as well as not-for-profit and community based organizations of all kinds. Really.
Generally, their material, particularly that to do with forming organization triads, the importance of known core values and having a noble cause, along with their thinking on why organizations seem to become stuck at certain levels of cultural development and what to do about it, has been a sort of A-HA, and interesting and nice companion model for me to Manager Tools.
Site: CultureSync.net
Reality Therapy (Choice Theory)
Where it all began for me. The first alternative educational experience I had (and probably the best I’ve known of anywhere to date), at the now defunct Center for Alternative Education. CAE’s model was based, it seems at least in good part on and appeared to adhere in the main to Dr. Willam Glasser’s theories.
Of particular interest and use to me (particularly coming as it did at the time of my adolescence, but in fact its stuck with me) has been the ideas relating to understanding Total Behavior, that we all share Core or Basic Needs, that we all do the best we can get those needs met, and of the importance in attempting to do so in accord with the best pictures in our Quality World.
I’d be curious to hear from folks who’ve recently undergone a course in Reality Therapy as to their experience of this model today.