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Automate? Automate what? – The Daily PPILL #32

Automate? Automate what? – The Daily PPILL #32

“the system will take care of it”. If it only would be that easy. For sure, many systems and software developed by some vendors, come with already built-in best-practices in business processes that have proven to work in diverse scenarios, and sometimes...
Purpose? How about better purpose? – The Daily PPILL #31

Purpose? How about better purpose? – The Daily PPILL #31

How do you find inspiration? How do feel motivated to get up and pursue the goal? How about aspiring for a better goal? The espresso machine commercial that came up today on the feed echoes this “coffee so good you’ll turn into a morning person”. If...
The “stuff” of leadership – The Daily PPILL #30

The “stuff” of leadership – The Daily PPILL #30

There is a lot of talk about leadership, but what is it? What defines it? It is definitely not a title, and most of the time it has to do nothing with Management. It is more of a mindset. The “stuff” that leadership is made out of, is the willingness to...
The Bullet Journal – The Daily PPILL #29

The Bullet Journal – The Daily PPILL #29

I. Cannot. Stop. Talking. About. This. One. Ryder Carroll has been working on this idea for a while. I got first introduced to it through fine journal maker Leuchtturm1917. Carroll has come up with a method that makes paper journaling flexible and multi-purpose. When...
Keeping up with the Joneses – The Daily PPILL #28

Keeping up with the Joneses – The Daily PPILL #28

Probably one of the most powerful incentives that can exist, is peer pressure. As individuals, we want to belong, and to belong, we cannot stick out. UK’s “Nudge Unit”, made famous by the Freakonomics guys,  was created specifically to exploit...
Grouping like-tasks – The Daily PPILL #27

Grouping like-tasks – The Daily PPILL #27

Ah! My fixation with the proper way to load a dishwasher… I know. Bear with me a bit. At home, I insist that all silverware loaded into the dishwasher is classified at the moment when is placed into the machine. My reasoning is that, at that time, each and every...