Whenever you organize the interaction of a set of complex activities, it is important to get the most unrestricted flow of effort possible. Bottlenecks occur when too many activities go through restrictions in resources. A road traffic experiment in Holland gives a good example of how to ease restrictions and this post reveals how you can use the same principles to make your work flow easier.

In business life and in personal life, planning is generally done with the wrong purpose in mind. It is done to predict when something will finish and a mightily poor tool it is for doing that. This post explains how to make planning truly effective.

Multitasking refers to the practice of carrying out a multitude of tasks more or less at the same time. A chorus of voices is growing that speaks out over how multitasking seriously reduces productivity and even happiness.

Decision-making can prove very hard to do because it usually involves cutting off other options, which can lead to loss and that’s something that we seem to be hard wired to prevent. However, not making decisions can also cause invisible losses and so it’s important for you to be aware of what’s going on and how to make difficult decisions easier to take.

Many people mistakenly think that the results that we get for the amount of effort put in are balanced and linear in proportion. Empirical evidence shows that this is not the case. Some activities have a much higher impact than other activities. When you know how this works, you have in your hands one of the greatest tools for leveraging your efforts ever discovered.