efficient leadership - getting things done with flow
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Tactical leadership techniques using a flavor of David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology with Metalab's GetFlow.com SAAS task management platformTRANSCRIPT
Making Email ObsoleteMaximizing Executive Effectiveness With FLOW and GTD
What We Know
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10X CEO’s Focus on top 3 Priorities Improving Your Business Model Improving Your Business Processes Improving your Talent Environment
What We Use Today
10x CEO xRay Decision Blueprints Goal Maps
What detracts from 10x Time?
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Being Reactive Hovering over Email and Texts
Redundant Meetings Spending time exchanging
information Document Hunting
Hunting for Files / Documents Facilitating Collaboration
Playing facilitator for cross company collaboration
10x CEO’s Improve Business Processes
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Software Development - Agile
Operations - Six Sigma
Build.com - GTD “Getting Things Done” Methodology by David Allen and augmented it with “Flow” technology to build a hyper efficient executive process
10x CEO’s Improve Business Processes
BUILD.COM CEO CHRIS FRIEDLAND
“Executive teams need to leverage a best practice process”
Getting Things Done Summary
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“No task should be in anyone’s head, everything should be in a reliable system you review on a regular basis.”
High Level Thinking Requires all your house to be in order - ‘Mind Like Water’ To be in this state, you should free up as much processing time as
possible on low level low value tasks “working in the business”
GTD Key Elements
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Leverage a trusted system to capture tasks and projects
Setup lists / buckets in advance
Adhere to incoming processing system : “2 Minute Rule”
Review weekly to keep the system working
“Getting Things Done” Workflow:
“Getting Things Done” Quadrants
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Methodology vs Systems
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GTD ~ “eating healthy”Everyone subscribes to it being a good idea, but implementation is hard
New powerful tools emerged, adherence no longer hard
While there are many solutions, we use:
GetFlow.com
Getting Things Done with Flow
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Getting Things Done with Flow
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Getting Things Done with Flow
BUILD.COM CEO CHRIS FRIEDLAND
Getting Things Done with Flow
BUILD.COM CEO CHRIS FRIEDLAND
Getting Things Done with Flow
BUILD.COM CEO CHRIS FRIEDLAND
Getting Things Done with Flow
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Getting Things Done with Flow
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The Results?
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EMPTY INBOXINITATIVES TRACKED
MIND LIKE WATER
What NON 10x CEO’s Respond with
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My People Don’t need a system – They are all A’s Talent development doesn’t happen all on its own Staying in the “Flow” of what is going on and leaning in when
necessary eliminates time overhead and keeps you connected SEE CEO PRIORITY 3
What NON 10x CEO’s Respond with
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I don’t need another system / device in my life, I’ve got eMail / Twitter / Facebook and that’s all I need
A task management system clarifies what is most important
Email becomes a conduit for memos and informational communiqués which don’t require action
Don’t be the CEO who didn’t need email because they liked using the TELEPHONE
SEE CEO PRIORITY 2
Crawl Walk Run
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Read David Allen’s ”Getting Things Done” It’s a religion, not a manual Adapt for what suits your style Make your management team read it as well
Meet and discuss its merits with them Start using the GTD philosophy and Flow
Flow as your own personal list system Use these in your direct report meetings
In Conclusion
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• Developing a FRAMEWORK and PROCESS for your executive function will help elevate your teams effectiveness and SAVE YOU TIME
• Leverage GTD and a Task Management system like www.getflow.com to grow from a 10x to a 15x CEO
Additional Resources
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Email me directly with questions [email protected]
View David Allen’s TedX Talk on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
CHxhjDPKfbY
Sign up for a trial version of Flow www.getflow.com
Anything Else?
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