Indies Education · Business Curriculum
Productivity
Design sustainable systems for focus, energy, learning, leadership, and meaningful progress.
David Allen’s Input Processing Technique
A rigorous, practical guide to process captured inputs into clear outcomes, actions, waiting, calendar, reference, incubation, or deletion using a trusted workflow. 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 Cost Your Time for Better Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to estimate the economic and opportunity cost of time for pricing, prioritization, delegation, process design, and capacity decisions without claiming every hour has one price. 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.
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.
Design Your Week Around Energy, Not Busyness
Build a sustainable weekly rhythm by matching focus, collaboration, administration, reactive coverage, buffer, and recovery to observed capacity—without confusing a full calendar with meaningful progress.