by Pat Sweet | Apr 29, 2013 | Article, Productivity
A colleague of mine, Christian Knutson, of the excellent and highly recommended The Engineer Leader blog, recently sent me an article by Leo Babauta. The title is “Achieving without goals”. Leo, who’s the master of all things Zen and living life...
by Pat Sweet | Apr 27, 2013 | Article, Productivity
I’m a firm believer that you need to have fun at work. The way I see it, you spend more waking hours at the office and with your co-workers than you do with you do with your own family. If the majority of your life is spent not having fun… well, life would...
by Pat Sweet | Apr 3, 2013 | Article, Productivity
This is something that we’ve discussed quite a bit at work recently – the difference between urgent tasks and important tasks. I think that most people can intuitively tell you what the difference is between the two if you’re discussing it over a cup...
by Pat Sweet | Mar 25, 2013 | Article, Careers, Professional Development
Back in Part I of this post, I talked about the goal of an engineer, and how to be truly productive. If your actions aren’t bringing you closer to your goal, then you’re not really being productive. Sure you might be getting things done, but you’re...
by Pat Sweet | Mar 19, 2013 | Article, Careers, Productivity
Sometimes, you need to work over-time. Be it a proposal that needs to be in before the deadline, or a scramble to get a presentation together for your boss, it’s inevitable that you’ll be putting some time in after 5PM (and possibly before 8AM, too)....
