Do you know how speed can affect your health, efficiency and family time?

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Nowadays, we are working faster, driving faster, communicating faster, eating faster – in short, living faster. The time savings gained by technology have been offset by increases in complexity, choices, interruptions, expectations, stress, delays and errors. Our bodies are not designed to operate at warp speed and we are faced with a variety of ailments to the point that “getting well” has become another time consumer.
Life in general is being lived at a much faster pace than 50 years ago – or even 20 years ago. We have a love affair with speed. And it borders on the ridiculous. From fast food and instant downloads to one-minute bedtime stories and drive-through funerals, businesses are competing for our discretionary time.
The average business lunch is down to 36 minutes or less. One article claims the average worker eats lunch in 24 minutes. The expression “lunch hour” is a misnomer. Everyone seems intent on packing more and more into every hour, some even gobbling down fast food as they check their email. In the following article written by time expert Harold Taylor you can get an idea of how speed affects the way we work and live. Don’t miss this interesting piece!

The hazards of speed
In order to get everything done, we are sacrificing sleep and discretionary time. The average American now gets 90 minutes less sleep a night than she did a century ago. Drowsiness causes more car accidents than alcohol. In my lifetime, the average amount of sleep we get has decreased from just over 8 hours per night to 6.7 hours. Getting less than 6 hours of sleep a night can impair motor coordination, speech, reflexes and judgment.

10+ universe facts worth knowing

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There is no more exciting nor more significant development in science than modern cosmology. What greater question could we ask than how we came to exist? Whence the Universe? How and why are there galaxies and atoms; carrots and quanta; what does it all mean, if there is such a thing as meaning? Here are some milestones in the development of today’s understanding of the universe.
We learn what we learn about the universe from light and almost all of our natural light comes from a nearby star we call the Sun, either directly or by reflection off the Moon. With our eyes we can see a few thousand stars and five other planets that orbit the sun like the Earth. But, we didn’t look very closely until about 1600.
In a little over 100 years, the genius of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton removed most of the mythology from astronomy.  The sun became just another star, stars became just other suns, and gravity ruled the behavior of rocks and Moons with one unifying, universal law.

Consumer psychology: Why do you end up buying the products you buy?

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Everyday, you and millions of other potential consumers make thousands of decisions. You are not consciously aware of most of the decisions you make, but you make most of them the same way, by reflecting on the drawbacks involved, and then picking that course of action with the fewest drawbacks (or the least painful ones).
Herbert Simon, a Nobel Prize winning economist, referred to this as “satisficing.” Instead of optimizing satisfaction, and choosing an outstanding product in terms of its aspects in one particular area, we compromise on the best so that we do not get the worst in some other aspect. We don’t settle for the best in one area, but the least bad in all areas. This article provides you with useful information on how customers make their decisions. Take a look!

What is ‘Out’ in Social Media and what is ‘In’

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Since 2010, when Social Media first became an internet buzzword, it has proven itself to be not only a cultural facilitator, but also a very real business tool. Social networks powerfully differentiate themselves from previous internet marketing channels in that on a daily basis, they are gathering, parsing and sorting the commercially valuable demographic data of the end user.
Social Media now describes wide range of services, communications and evolutions that are concurrently taking place throughout cyberspace. While the phrase is descriptive, it is better to think of it as one of many views of the internet. It is important to recognize social media as a subset of a larger whole where the component parts and various platforms, protocols and devices are all different ways to see the same distributed information, communications and manufacturing networks.

Self-confidence: go back to the roots and pull out the best in yourself

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The words self-confidence and motivation did not always exist in common conversation. They are expressions that emerged as skills became more technical and one started to analyse them at the same time as human behaviour. In the workplace, self-confidence and efficacy seem to be at the root of success. In this article, we will try to find out why…
Now, let us look at the contrary situation: a person who lacks self-confidence will often sit in a corner, not participate in conversations, which in turn leads to them to doing their work nonchallantly. This proves that self-confidence, motivation and efficacy go together and are vital in the working world. It is important to look at each one of these competences to find the root of their importance.
1. Self-confidence
There are two aspects of self-confidence: the first is competence, whether or not you have the necessary skills and abilities to complete a task. The second is self-assurance and whether or not you believe that you have the ability to complete the task.

Why are Projects Late? An introduction to Critical Chain!

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Project Teams are expected to complete Projects before or on the committed due date, within budget and without compromise to the original specification.  History shows a pattern of project underperformance, with most projects not meeting one or more of these expectations. Many external factors are blamed for this under performance; however the PM method is not questioned.
The frequent switching of the Critical Path (CP) when Tasks are updated is not questioned. This CP switching certainly increases Multi-Tasking in-turn causing excessive set-up, set-down and re-set-up, draining the available Resource capacity. This white paper builds on the foundational work laid by Critical Path and suggests that using well established Process Control Methods, tactically located “Shock Absorbing’ buffers can be inserted into the project network effectively stabilizing the Critical Path, which reduces the wasted energy chasing fluctuating priorities. In addition, these Buffers provide sufficient Early Warning and identify exactly where and when intervention is required to keep the project inside a budget, within due date and to specification.
Critical Path
Critical Path has been the generally accepted method of managing projects since the cold war. Building on this foundational work and introducing the generally accepted method of Process Control, the Critical Path can become a Stable Datum Plane, enhancing predictability while reducing wasted resource capacity.

Organisational success: can’t live without creativity

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Do you know what the ultimate competitive advantage in today’s fast changing business climate is? The answer is: organisational creativity. Business is fundamentally a creation process: creation of customer value, creation of new technologies and processes, creation of new market space, and creation of the better ways of creation itself.  It is therefore safe to say that a world class organisation must exhibit an unequalled excellence in creation in order to be recognised.
Organisations need to develop from within
Harnessing organisational creativity is rapidly becoming the most important ingredient in achieving business excellence in almost all aspects of business. It is a capability that organisations can develop from within. Harnessing creativity to gain competitive advantage is not a matter of waiting for inspiration to descend from the sky, but a deliberate process and capability that is institutionalised in the organisation and can be called upon when deeded.