A little late to the party, but nevertheless right on track.
As Chandoo.org starts another year of making you awesome, I want to take a few minutes of your time to understand how I can help you better this year?
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Somebody asked me recently what I thought of single solution productivity tools. They mentioned a particular software that had a calendar, task list, project list, and contacts, and you could read your email from within the software.
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Here is a common problem. Imagine you are looking a complex spreadsheet, aptly titled “Corporate Strategy 2020.xlsx” which as 17 tabs, umpteen formulas and unclean structure. Whoever designed it was in insane hurry. The workbook has formulas like this, =SUM(Budget!A2:A30, 3600)+7925 .
It was as if Homer Simpson created it while Peter Griffin oversaw the project.
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When people have email lingering in their inboxes, there is generally one reason why. It’s not because they aren’t opening the emails, or because they’re not realizing they have to do something with the email.
It’s because they are trying to work from their inboxes.
This is a really bad idea, and today we will look at why people do it, and what should be done instead.
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This is a guest post by Sohail Anwar.
Why do so many of us use Excel? Let’s trace it back to the ’80s when Microsoft hit gold by being the first out of the blocks with the widely available operating system that was somewhat dummy proof.
Suddenly everyone could aspire to launch ‘Nukes’ like a fresh faced Matthew Broderick in the film ‘War Games’.
By the early 90’s Windows had become even more established relative to other Operating Systems, so much so that PC manufacturers were developing components around Windows’ capabilities and suddenly PCs were Windows machines. As big business began accepting the significance of computing, Microsoft started winning huge licensing contracts with all the major corporations in all sectors, but the Finance sector in particular, where Excel would be king, was having an exponential boom at this time. For big organisations, once you spent a fortune buying licences for the Operating System it only made sense to purchase the seamlessly integrated and carefully developed/tested apps to run on them; enter Excel, Word, PowerPoint and eventually Outlook. Fast forward to 2015 and we are firmly in the age of second generation corporate professionals who have developed much of their productivity skill sets around those particular Windows tools. While all the excellent tools have their place, Excel stands out and here are 8 reasons why you need to up your Excel game more than ever this year. Continue reading
On Fridays I pull the best of my blog readings to share with readers. Topics can come from anywhere, and cover anything.
This week I highlight articles on making daily unpleasantness less unpleasant; wrist wrests and the damage they do; how to cut cabl… Continue reading
In this episode I talk about what my grandfather called (punnily) “Condiment Time”
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In the 27th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s pave way for an awesome 2015.
We are going to talk about 15 proven strategies for making you awesome in Excel & Your work.
We all get fresh dose of energy, enthusiasm & drive during new years. So we aim for bigger & more awesome things. But once the first few weeks are over, we just settle down to the normal rhythm and forget about these big, hairy & audacious goals.
Let’s make 2015 different. In this podcast, Let’s understand how you can become awesome in Excel & your work this year, with 15 proven strategies:
Check out my latest guest post over at Productive Super Dad: The Rules Of Email Productivity In this article I talk about the 5 Cardinal Rules of Email Productivity: Process your email without taking action Don’t work from your inbox Have things delivered to your inbox Make a magazine pile Unsubscribe from what doesn’t bring […]
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Sometimes you just need a simple solution. Like when you’re trying to remember in which cloud storage you stashed a particular file. Instead of going through each one, wouldn’t it be great if there was one place you could look that had all of them?
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