Category: Blog Updates

This back-to-school month is shaping up to be a busy one for me at 2Time Labs.

I have four articles coming out that have been in the works for months – my free time over the summer was spent bringing them to completion.

The first was just released: it’s the second in The Notified Self series, focusing on a new requirement of modern professionals – they must set up alarms and alerts that tell them when emergencies are about to take place in their environment. As I mentioned in the first article, developers aren’t working together to give users a seamless experience. Instead, as users we must cobble one together that works for us and in this article, I offer some more specific help. It’s entitled: How to Set Up “The Warned Self” to Protect Your Peace of Mind.

The third and final article in the series focuses on The Informed Self and it will appear in the next few days.

I will also publish my multi-disciplinary, deep-diving answer to “Can Time Be Managed?” as a Special Report.

Around the same time you can expect an article geared towards designers and developers of task management apps. It should be of interest to anyone who uses task management software and wants the experience to be more engaging. Taking the ideas in my book, I apply them in a way that’s brand new… and the first of another three part series. I haven’t finalized the title of this first piece, but the working version is: What Task Management App Developers Can Do to Catch Up with Pokemon Go.

From the title you may see where this one is going!

But here’s the article to start with now – How to Set Up “The Warned Self” to Protect Your Peace of Mind.

For anyone following up from the speech given last week at the UTECH conference  “Transforming Business and Management for Growth and Development,” there are a couple of papers available via email.

To receive the paper submitted to the conference, send email to [email protected].

To receive an introduction to Lights!Camera!Action!, send email to [email protected].

The programme from the conference can be found here:http://www.utech.edu.jm/soba_busconf/Programme.htm

In this blog entry, I talk about the need for a Trinidadian Jamaican Chamber of Commerce, with one located in Port of Spain and the other in Kingston.

Today happens to be Trinidadian Independence Day, so the timing for this idea seems to be just about right.

The following are the headlines from my business blog , Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle.

The Power of Writing
Mastery and the Plateau
More on Loving “Work”
More Evidence of Friction Points
The Thwarting of the Creative Class
Worker Attitudes in Jamaica
Service Standards — no more
The Customer-Supplier Fallacy
An Opportunity for Greatness
Consultant’s Prices part 2
Top Class Caribbean Service for Every Class
I Don’t Care
The Dual Income Profession
CSME — Is It for Real?
A Speech Covered in the HRMATT newsetter
A Man I Know Who Followed His Heart
Doing The Work
Books I’m Reading Now – -April
An Excerpt from Tantie
Doing What is Loved
Beating Our Backs to Stop the New Plague

I have been quite active in my blog:  Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle

Here are the topics of the entries from the past few months.
February
Digicel Woes in Trinidad
Management, Caribbean Style
An Article that Resonates
Using Video to See the Man in the Mirror
Going Wiki
“Being Positive” — A Recipe for Failure
On Caribbean Acquisitions
CAP: An Early Surprise
CAP: Talent Development
The EMyth and the myths it dispels
Critical Thinking vs. Faithful Following
CAP:  A search for Expertise
CAP: A Difference in Perspective
CAP: A Sense of Regret
CAP: Planning for a Culture
CAP: Having a Powerful Dialogue
He Who Writes, Defines

March
Waiting and the Customer Experience
Why EVERY Serious Business Should Blog
Delivering a Custom Experience
Starting a New Conversation

Not to be outdone, my Moving Back to Jamaica blog has been getting more attention ( I think) or at least more comments, and has been cross-linked and referred to in a couple of interesting places.

Folks,

I’ve been sharing some of the major Caribbean Acquisition Project (CAP) findings in the Framework Consulting blog, which you can reach from this site by clicking on “Blog” from the home page.

On a personal note, a journalist recently included a mention of my “Moving Back to Jamaica” blog in the Skywritings magazine, which is Air Jamaica’s inflight magazine.  The excerpt can be viewed at http://francismove.blogspot.com

The topics that were addressed in December to January on the company blog, http://blog.fwconsulting.com:

• On Authentic Leadership
• On Asking Better Questions
• On Winning Hearts and Minds
• Abundance
• Living the Good Life
• Small Market Marketing

In November, between plane trips and airports, I found the time to comment on the following topics in my blog — Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle:

Books I’m “Reading” Now — a summary of the different media I’m consuming at the moment 

Thankfully It’s Only a “Number One” Bank — a tongue in cheek look at a customer service snafu at RBTT Bank

Meeting Kwame — it was fun to finally run into someone in person that I had developed a professional internet relationship with over several years

On Transitioning to Work in Jamaica — what a course to culturally prepare an expat executive might look like

Who You Are — my intelligent guess as to who might reading my blogs instead of their expense accounts!

Caribbean Time and Jamaica Time — why rushing to get more stuff done might be a waste of time

CSME — Offense or Defense — Why CSME is sounding too much like protectionism, and too little like the opportunity it is