Hoshin Kanri Explained: Aligning Company Goals the Lean Way
Hoshin Kanri explained: Akao's 6 planning steps, catchball, the X-matrix, how it differs from OKRs, and a worked example for a 50-person company.
Productivity Systems & Methods
GTD, Kanban, bullet journaling, slow productivity and how to choose a system that fits you.
Systems at the organizational level
Reviewing and maintaining your system
The Daily Review: Five Minutes to Stay on Track
A daily review takes about 5 minutes: clear inboxes, check tomorrow, pick 1 to 3 priorities and note what moved, with the research behind each step.
Bullet journaling and paper systems
The Bullet Journal Method: A Beginner's Guide
Bullet journal for beginners: set up 4 core pages in one sitting, log in short symbol-led lines, and rewrite each month only the tasks that still matter.
Critiques and balance
Toxic Productivity: When Self-Optimization Goes Too Far
Toxic productivity has no clinical definition. What 4 lines of research show, from workaholism to busyness as a status symbol, and when to ease off.
Getting Things Done (GTD)
Getting Things Done: A Beginner's Guide to GTD
Getting Things Done for beginners: GTD's 5 steps, a minimal setup and a first-week plan, with each step labelled by what backs it, research or David Allen.
Task management
Checklists: The Simple Tool That Prevents Expensive Mistakes
Why checklists work: from a 1935 bomber crash to a 19-item surgical checklist, the evidence suggests real use matters more than having a list.
Guiding principles
The 80/20 Principle: A Complete Guide
The 80/20 rule tested against real data on software bugs, grocery sales and health spending: where the pattern holds, where the ratio breaks, how to use it.
Personal Kanban and agile
Personal Kanban: Visualize Your Work and Limit Work in Progress
Personal kanban's 2 rules, show your work and cap what is in progress, explained with the research on why fewer open tasks finish sooner.
Choosing and building a system
Productivity Systems Explained: A Guide to the Major Methods
7 productivity systems compared, from GTD and Pomodoro to the bullet journal: what each asks of you and what research says about its core idea.