May 25, 2017 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools, Work
I have a confession to make. I’m a productivity geek. I love to learn about Lean, Theory of Constraints, Kanban, Agile, Scrum, and all of the hybrids of these out there. But what I love more than any of this is creating and perfecting my own productivity tracking... 
Mar 17, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity
WYSWHYMD Yes, I did just make up a new acronym: what you see will help you make decisions. This is a blog post about how I researched and documented my findings on WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website editors and created a comparison chart using Cardsmith.... 
Feb 19, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity
Who could have predicted that one of Japan’s most sought-after decluttering experts would be so popular here, now, in the United States? Yet there’s no denying the sensation that is Marie Kondo and her bestselling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. In... 
Feb 9, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management
Jerry Vieira loves to get things done. As a certified management consultant (CMC) and CEO of The QMP Group, Jerry not only teaches his clients how to make good strategic decisions now, but transforms their organizations into highly efficient engines of profit and... 
Jan 28, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Work
If you work as an independent consultant, you understand the challenge of playing two roles at once: consultant and salesperson. It’s a uniquely frustrating cycle. First, you submerge yourself in nonstop selling and networking activity. You keep at it because you know... 
Jan 26, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools
We’ve all been there. You conduct a lively group brainstorming session during which your team members contribute a bunch of interesting, creative solutions or ideas…but nothing actually comes of it. Instead, the results merely stagnate on a photo you took of the...