Personal Kanban – Productivity Book Group

Productivity Book Group [ http://productivitybookgroup.org ] discussed Personal Kanban | Mapping Work, Navigating Life [ http://amzn.to/WltYRi ] by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. Enjoy the discussion! The Amazon book description for Personal Kanban states: […]

Productivity Book Group [ http://productivitybookgroup.org ] discussed Personal Kanban | Mapping Work, Navigating Life [ http://amzn.to/WltYRi ] by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. Enjoy the discussion!

Machines need to be productive. People need to be effective. Productivity books focus on doing more, Jim and Tonianne want you to focus on doing better. Personal Kanban is about choosing the right work at the right time. Recognizing why we do the things we do. Understanding the impact of our actions. Creating value – not just product. For ourselves, our families, our friends, our co-workers. For our legacy. Personal Kanban takes the same Lean principles from manufacturing that led the Japanese auto industry to become a global leader in quality, and applies them to individual and team work. Personal Kanban asks only that we visualize our work and limit our work-in-progress. Visualizing work allows us to transform our conceptual and threatening workload into an actionable, context-sensitive flow. Limiting our work-in-progress helps us complete what we start and understand the value of our choices.

Productivity Book Group will be discussing Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by  Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein! – http://amzn.to/1rbRqZj

2016’s complete reading list is available at http://productivitybookgroup.org/upcoming-books/

We discussed Getting Things Done (Revised Edition – 2015) by David Allen – http://amzn.to/1MZC0Sp – last year: Getting Things Done (Revised Edition 2015) – Productivity Book Group.

We have had a series of calls about Getting Things Done here on Productivity Book Group:

Getting Things Done: Part 1: The Art of Getting Things Done: Introduction and Chapters 1-3
Getting Things Done: Part 2a: Practicing Stress-Free Productivity: Chapters 4-6
Getting Things Done: Part 2b: Practicing Stress-Free Productivity: Chapters 7-10
Getting Things Done: Part 3: The Power of the Key Principles: Chapters 11-13 and Conclusion

Also, there’s the GTD Virtual Study Group podcast worth checking out – http://gtdvsg.com. You’ll find Ray Sidney-Smith on many of the calls discussing the GTD principles!

Trello (kanban productivity software) – http://trello.com

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Join us on our new 2016 Financial Productivity Challenge as we read and do the activities together in One Year to an Organized Life [ http://amzn.to/1Oux3SO ] by Regina Leeds and Russell Wild. Read all the details and join the weekly email list!

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