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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

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Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities. In The Alter Ego Effect , author Todd Herman suggests that we add another element: creating an alter ego to boost our confidence and skills.

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How to Assess, Decide, Do with Pen, Paper and Magnets

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ADD is not only flexible enough to be adapted to your needs, but it’s also really, really simple. ADD offers this simplicity for a variety of reasons. Once you have finished a task you may build a dozen more on top of the results and start the process over. How To Use It Now, how do you use this board?

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Assess – Decide – Do: Natural Productivity

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It came in the form of three words: Assess – Decide – Do. How do you get up in the morning? Assess, Decide, Do. I started to calm down and assess what I want to do, then decide if, when and where I want to do that, and then do it. First assess, then decide, then do. Somehow, it seemed to work.

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Natural Productivity – Introducing iAdd for iPhone

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This was the beginning of a long and somehow confusing process. We’re also made to Assess our environment and to Decide whether or not we’re going to do something. A few weeks later, my own life management workflow, called Assess – Decide – Do was ready. Decide has a “?&#

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The Death Of The Deadline As We Know It

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In Assess – Decide – Do, your tasks will always generate a new cycle. You’re also spending time in Assess or in Decide. In this respect, a project is never “finished” in ADD. The graphical representation of a project in Assess – Decide – Do will look more like a spiral than like a Gantt diagram.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

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iAdd is based on my own framework, Assess – Decide – Do. One thing that you may not know, though, is that 2 months ago I had no idea about how to write an iPhone app. This post will not cover this process. Learned how to create a project and what the folder structure means. Can be tricky at times.

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Why the 80/20 Rule Could Make You Less Productive

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Also, each item has also a big list of subtasks, for example, for my thesis it may look like: Corrections of current draft, Finish proof at page 54, Add corrections to Section 3, Start the next case, Correct again. There may be none, it depends on how you write your set of activities. A clear example would be my thesis in the work set.

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