Marc Essay

Marc Orchant

Work Is Broken: Here's How We Fix It

Summary

Meetings, presentations, and e-mail are a part of many people’s work day. Used effectively, each can help keep teams aligned, impart important information, and move projects forward. We now are bombarded with information from the web, blogs, wikis, intranets, search engines, and other digital sources in addition to paper. We’re challenged to develop and maintain a system for collecting, processing, and acting on all of this information. And the classic techniques we’ve relied on in the past have either ceased to be effective or have simply broken. In this essay, I’ll share some proven techniques for fixing what’s been broken.

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Marc's Blogs

The Office Weblog (a blog about office and knowledge work)
The Tablet PCs Weblog (a blog about Tablet PCs)
The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog (news and opinion about Microsoft)
Marc's Outlook on Productivity (Marc's original blog)
The Tablet PC Show (a podcast about Tablet PCs with James Kendrick)

Favorite quote on productivity:
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
Peter F. Drucker