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“Today new job. Tomorrow the world!” Hi there, welcome to Microsoft. Whether you’re a new hire at Microsoft or taking on a new job, here’s some principles, patterns and practices to be more effective. I learned a lot from 25 years at Microsoft, and I hope that some of these lessons can help you in …
“People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.” — Peter McWilliams Anybody can create a short list. But not everybody can can create a useful, actionable, and insightful big list with skill – unless they know a few tricks of how to organize them. I’ll …
One of the best ways for making sense of a space is to have a lens for looking at it. The productivity and results space are well-traversed and the body of knowledge is enormous. That’s part of the problem. Without an effective lens, it can be difficult to find, organize, and share the productivity strategies, …
Workshops are one of the best ways to rapidly brainstorm ideas, capture scenarios, mine for patterns, etc. The challenge can be designing an effective workshop. In the book Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle, Ian F. Alexander and Neil Maiden present The Six P’s Workshop Framework. Here is a summary of the …
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.” — George Bernard Shaw We all have the potential to know more, do more, be more, and achieve more. A lot of us know we were born for something more, but then we struggle to reach that potential. Rather than wondering about what you are …
