Pierre Khawand
In this show Bob and Pat talk with productivity expert and author Pierre Khawand about simple, effective ways of improving you productivity today. Pierre is the CEO of People-OnTheGo, a consulting company and author of “The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook: How to accomplish more in less time, less effort, and less stress!”
In this interview, we delve into a set of very simple habit that can improve your productivity. Both Bob and Pat found Pierre’s advice extremely helpful: we hope you will too!
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URLs mentioned/relevant to this show:
- People-OnTheGo web site.
- The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook
- Pierre Khawand can be reached at pierre@people-onthego.com and on Twitter at @pierrekhawand.
- Pierre’s post – Stop e-mailing and start living: 5 tips to get e-mail well under control in 2011 – at 47Hats.
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Hi, great interview. What was the name of the 40 minute timer that Bob mentioned in the interview?
Hi Nick,
It’s Pomodoro – there are implementations of the Pomodoro Technique for every platform out there. If you are on a Mac, strongly recommend something called “Vitamin-R” – it’s flexibility, and it’s ability to accept Tasks from either Things or OmniFocus (but not Wunderlist
) is a real timesaver.
Patrick,
Yes, staying on “Do Not Disturb” for long periods is anti-social. Basically, you are saying I want to be able to interrupt you whenever I want but you can’t interrupt me.
I suggest that you close down your IM client for long periods of uninterrupted time.
Great podcast. Normal I start my day by chekhing email but this morning I changed that
Gordon: I don’t agree with you that pomodoro says that “I want to be able to interrupt you whenever I want but you can’t interrupt me.” It’s about handling your interruptions in a way that don’t break your focus.
if you want a simple pomodoro timer checkout http://sl4.tomatoday.dk/timer.aspx