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	Time and Paper: Keep the Flow Going

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6-22-2006 3:54 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9322d6ae-987e-400d-81de-0efc706cdf7d/F64DAF5C-12A4-476D-9152-32049501E427/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.productivitygoal.com/2006/06/time_and_paper_keep_the_flow_g.html" href="http://www.productivitygoal.com/2006/06/time_and_paper_keep_the_flow_g.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.productivitygoal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.productivitygoal.com/2006/06/time_and_paper_keep_the_flow_g.html"><P><FONT size="2"><SPAN>Don't be a beaver!  Time, paper and activity keep flowing.  You must direct and divert that flow, not damn it up at your desk. </SPAN></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.productivitygoal.com/2006/06/time_and_paper_keep_the_flow_g.html"><P><FONT size="2"><SPAN>The answer depends on why each log is there.  If you don't know the answer, you can't direct the flow.  The main questions to ask are “why do I have this?” and (if there's a good reason to have it) “what's the next action?”  If there's no good reason, make sawdust out of it.  </SPAN></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.productivitygoal.com/2006/06/time_and_paper_keep_the_flow_g.html"><P><FONT size="2"><SPAN>Of course, you will have projects that can't be sent downstream right away, but those ongoing projects should not be mixed in with the incoming logs.  Keep the flow going by identifying new logs as your work to do, information to be filed, and reading.  The rest should be sent on to someone else or tossed out.  </SPAN></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F64DAF5C-12A4-476D-9152-32049501E427/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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