Irresponsibles Anonymous

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Limits of Memory

I have referred often to the limits of human short-term memory, but on this occasion I wanted to delve a Little deeper to evidence exactly why we forget our commitments.

“The role of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths such as weaknesses become irrelevant”

-       Peter Drucker

Understanding the memory is essential to make, as Drucker says, its weaknesses irrelevant.

Memory… What memory?

The first thing that needs to be clarified is that the brain has different kinds of memory, to simplify we will divide them in two types: “Working Memory” and “Storage Memory” continue reading…

Bailing WaterIrresponsibility can be an addiction as strong as drugs or alcohol, Irresponsible Anonymous is a 12 step program to kick the habit of breaking promises, this is step two, it is about reaching stable ground to build upon.

When I started getting organized, I checked my email inbox to make a list of all pending issues, at the time there were close to 10.000 e-mails, from which i got only about 100 tasks, proving that a pile of stuff doesn’t always imply a pile of work. A large amount of material that reaches your attention is just background noise, the key is in being able to separate the chaff from the valuable input you need to get your work done. continue reading…