Comments on: Foolish Productivity: The Hobgoblin of Creative Minds

By: Huge Wasp | Bees and Wasps

Huge Wasp | Bees and Wasps — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:59:42 +0000

[...] stuck, it is time to take what Mark McGuinness calls "Lateral Action." (His clause can be found at: http://lateralaction.com/articles/foolish-productivity/ ) If that bug took sidelong action to the south, he would be home [...]

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Top Project Management Postings: September 2008 | Project Shrink — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:03:03 +0000

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By: Glen Graham II

Glen Graham II — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:48:26 +0000

This is a great article one of the methods I use for stay creative is taking a day off during the week and doing nothing. That one day a week really relaxes me and gets my creative juices charged.

By: Suzanne McDonald

Suzanne McDonald — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:34:12 +0000

Excellent points that are quite heartening, as I’m currently learning to live a never-enough-time life. Strategizing what I can do without or what others can do will ultimately make my firm highly successful.

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:15:50 +0000

for some us, self defeat is our worst enemy when it comes to being creative especially in peculiar climes like Naija- for Nigeria – where creativity is smothered before you spell cre…….
Your post is challenging all of that.Pls keep it up

By: Impegno per impegno

Impegno per impegno — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:36:01 +0000

[...] proprio una bella lettura e fonte di ispirazione) e Lateral Action, soprattutto nel post intitolato Foolish Productivity). Tutti ruotano intorno all’idea che spesso questo tenersi occupati sia una trappola mentale. [...]

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WRCE bookmarks? Or, I need help. « Writer, Reader, Chocolate Eater — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:27:36 +0000

[...] the other hand, if you focus too much on execution, you can get caught up in foolish productivity, busy all the time yet somehow never creating anything [...]

By: Foolish Productivity: The Hobgoblin of Creative Minds Revisited | Jessica Eaves Mathews

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:24:21 +0000

[...] I got inspiration this week from an excellent blog post I read by Mark McGuinness (of Lateral Action and Third Tribe fame). His article can be found at: http://lateralaction.com/articles/foolish-productivity/ [...]

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The 10 Top Productivity Blogs | HealthCompareGuide — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:33:26 +0000

[...] enough to be productive if what you produce doesn’t make a difference. Those who stay busy with foolish productivity are scurrying around efficiently avoiding any real innovation, one productivity hack at a [...]

By: IDEAS AT WORK » Blog Archive » Creativity + Implementation = Success

IDEAS AT WORK » Blog Archive » Creativity + Implementation = Success — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:18:25 +0000

[...] his article, Foolish Productivity: The Hobgoblin of Creative Minds, McGuinness shares his views on how productivity and time management can be the [...]