Indies Education · Business Curriculum
Productivity
Design sustainable systems for focus, energy, learning, leadership, and meaningful progress.
Is This a “Morning” Task?: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to matching tasks to time of day. Learn through a distinct operating model, realistic business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and field exercises that connect personal attention with sustainable team performance.
How to Meet a Deadline: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to how to meet a deadline. Learn through a distinct operating model, realistic business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and field exercises that connect personal attention with sustainable team performance.
Managing Interruptions: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to managing interruptions. Learn through a distinct operating model, realistic business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and field exercises that connect personal attention with sustainable team performance.
Multitasking: Costs, Limits and Better Systems
A rigorous, practical guide to manage unavoidable concurrency while reducing costly task switching, divided attention, unfinished work, and error. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Leverage: Multiply Impact Without Hidden Costs
A rigorous, practical guide to increase valuable impact through elimination, standardization, delegation, automation, reusable assets, capability, and systems while managing fragility and transferred burden. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How to Be More Organized at Work for Business
A rigorous, practical guide to create an external system for commitments, information, space, routines, and review that reduces search, omission, duplication, and cognitive load. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
The Art of Filing: Design for Retrieval
A rigorous, practical guide to design a filing system around retrieval, provenance, access, retention, version, and disposal rather than accumulation. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Managing Electronic Files Safely and Clearly
A rigorous, practical guide to manage digital files with consistent naming, metadata, version control, permissions, synchronization, backup, retention, and recoverability. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Managing Email Effectively Without Inbox Theatre
A rigorous, practical guide to use email as a deliberate communication channel with clear response norms, processing routines, action capture, records discipline, and escalation. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Prioritization: Make Scarce Capacity Explicit
A rigorous guide to choosing what deserves scarce capacity. Learn to compare value, urgency, delay cost, dependencies, effort, risk, and strategic fit; make exclusions explicit; stage uncertain work; and review priorities when evidence or constraints change.
Eisenhower’s Urgent–Important Principle
A rigorous, practical guide to separate urgency from importance so immediate demands do not crowd out prevention, capability, relationships, and long-horizon outcomes. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
What Time Management Really Means for Business
A rigorous, practical guide to manage commitments, attention, energy, capacity, and trade-offs so finite time produces meaningful results without exporting cost to health or colleagues. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated.