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Matthew Stibbe is the CEO of Articulate Marketing, a content marketing agency, and founder of Turbine, an online application that helps businesses take care of administrative issues, to “take the paper out of paperwork.”

How to Do a Time and Motion Study to Make Real Change

December 18, 2018 by Matthew Stibbe 3 Comments

The famous management thinker Socrates once said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

As 2019 approaches, everyone is making resolutions. Most people do this without data, hypotheses or any idea of what they’re going to do differently. It’s usually a combination of regrets over bets that didn’t pan out, thoughts about what they feel they should improve, and inspiration from others. And they wonder why nothing really changes.

Intention without information is powerless. To misquote great management thinker, Albert Einstein, doing the same thing and hoping for a different result is the definition of inefficiency.

This is where the personal time and motion study can help.

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Filed Under: Lifehacks Tagged With: Productivity, Self-Improvement, Time Management

8 Expensive Lessons in Project Management, for Free!

February 19, 2013 by Matthew Stibbe 3 Comments

When it comes to project management, it’s so much cheaper to learn from someone else’s mistakes. So here are a few of mine!

I’ve been running projects for my whole adult life. I started with computer games at IG. After ten years I switched to marketing and copywriting projects at Articulate Marketing, which I still run. On top of that, I’m now also CEO of Turbine, an online app for purchases, expenses, time off management and HR record-keeping.

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Photo: Frits Ahlefeldt-Laurvig

Project management is the art, craft and science of getting stuff done by teams. And it’s also like walking through a minefield. These tips – based on my own experience over 20 years – will help you find your way through it.

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Filed Under: People Management Tagged With: Management, Productivity, Project Management, Success, Time Management

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