Pierre Khawand, Author, Founder, & CEO People-OnTheGo

Pierre Khawand

Pierre Khawand, Founder & CEO of People-OnTheGo (http://www.people-onthego.com) is a productivity evangelist helping business professionals and organizations overcome the challenges of the digital overload. He is the author of The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook: How to accomplish more in less time, less effort, and less stress!, The Results Curve: How to manage focused and collaborative time!, and The New New Inbox: How Email and Social Media Changed Our Lives.

What is The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook ?

The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook is the result of a decade of research and teaching on corporate and academic campuses, in person and virtually via web and video conferencing, and embodies my key findings about how to overcome the challenges of the information overload and accomplish meaningful things. Thousands of participants in the Accomplishing More With Less Workshop have made significant breakthroughs using the Accomplishing More With Less Methodology.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: The Myth of Multitasking
• Chapter 2: Meet Your New (Non-Digital) Assistant
• Chapter 3: Mastering The Personal Zone
• Chapter 4: E-mail Subdued
• Chapter 5: Every Day is a Complete Day
• Chapter 6: Every Day is a Fresh Day
• Chapter 7: Radically Fast Filing
• Chapter 8: The Last Priority System You Will Ever Use
• Chapter 9: The Results You Want
• Chapter 10: The De-Stress Secrets
• Chapter 11: Use Collaboration Technologies to Accelerate Everything
• Chapter 12: All Wishful Thinking Until We Take Action

Video

Contact Info

Pierre Khawand can be reached at pierre@people-onthego.com and on Twitter at @pierrekhawand.

Interview questions:

• Why is multitasking a myth?
• How do you effectively cycle between creative work and engagement with others?
• So how do I tame email, the beast that would not die!
• There’s an obvious comparison between your approach and David Allen’s Getting Things Done. What’s the relationship there? Competing, complementary, co-existing?
• You recommend a very specific set of tasks at the beginning and end of each day. What do these tasks accomplish? What happens if you’re too busy or too tired to remember them, let alone do them?
• You’re in favor of using a paper journal in a number of ways. But I – and most of are audience – live and breath computer. For example, I can get to my journal page for today with a single keyboard command, and copy into text instead of retyping. By going digital instead of analog, am I missing something you’re trying to impart here?
• Between my iMac, external drives, a half dozen servers, a couple of dozen online services out there, I probably have something north of 10 million files of content. How can I possibly apply a filing system to them all, when I can search and find what I want in seconds?
• What is an Immediate Priorities Matrix and why do I need one?
• A problem Bob and a lot of startup founders have is there’s a major disconnect between the things we need to do today, tomorrow, this week and our strategic goals. Is closing that gap just a question of sucking it up and refusing to do non-strategic tasks?

(Interview set for Jan. 31st, 2011, Show date: TBD)

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