Monthly Archives: February 2010

Ninja Email Laws

Posted on February 25, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

Time Management Ninja offers “9 Laws for Work Email.” They’re all worth checking out. My favorite is “Keep it Short,” with the suggestion that all emails be less than five lines long. But I particularly like this insight: Do not … Continue reading →

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Toyoda's Testimony

Posted on February 24, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

Today, I watched some of the Congressional testimony of Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota, and Yoshimi Inaba, chief operating officer for North America. First off, as to how to respond to the Toyota recall from a Lean perspective, I’m essentially … Continue reading →

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Stephen Covey and Lean

Posted on February 23, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

Via Mark Graban at Lean Blog, here’s an interesting video introducing Steven Covey as a keynote speaker at this year’s Shingo Prize conference. Like Mark, I see connections between Lean and some of Covey’s principles (e.g. Be Proactive,  Sharpen the … Continue reading →

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Checklists: Get Consensus and Follow Up

Posted on February 22, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

Matthew May just finished Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, a book high up on my own reading list. Matt discusses two criteria for checklists: Clarity. Assume an untrained eye will read it. Make it bullet-proof, … Continue reading →

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A Seamless Web

Posted on February 18, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

Just how wired are we? Here’s a personal illustration from San Francisco’s Financial District. There’s a bus stop across from my office building. But I can get a better seat going home if I walk to an earlier stop about … Continue reading →

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Capture Clearinghouse

Posted on February 17, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

With the explosion of iPhone apps, note taking applications, and digital dictation software, there is (maybe literally) a million ways to capture ideas. Too many. A fundamental principle of GTD is to have a good system for capturing ideas whenever … Continue reading →

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Run Right

Posted on February 16, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

Occasionally, this blog will focus on health. This is the first such post. Health is the foundation for everything we do and a prerequisite for improving professionally. Via James Fallows, new running research (subscription required) shows that forefoot striking is … Continue reading →

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Spring Clean Your Mailbox

Posted on February 15, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

I’m not immune from Exchange server warnings that my mailbox is approaching the limit. Time to clean it out again. This is the checklist I follow to get it done: I realize some of these folders need an explanation, something … Continue reading →

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Free Your Mind (and the rest will follow)

Posted on February 12, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

David Allen recently wrote (no link available): I’m lazy and I don’t want to think about anything more than it deserves. So my quest became to find the best and most efficient ways to think about things as little as … Continue reading →

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The Future of Legal Education: Online?

Posted on February 11, 2010 by D. Mark Jackson

Ralph Losey persuasively argues that online education will replace bricks-and-mortor education, including law school, as the dominant form. The major advantage of online courses, he claims, is that they are asynchronous, meaning: A student can logon to study at the time … Continue reading →

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