Manager 101 - Manager’s personal organization
Q: As a contributor to an engineering team, I would like to know how to organize myself better. It often happens that I try to remember where I have noted something. I remember that I did, but I take time to find it. Would you happen to have any advice?
This is an important question whether you are an individual contributor or a manager. You have everything to gain by finding an efficient way for your personal organization.
As a manager but even more as an executive, you need a perfect organization of your knowledge. It allows you to be as efficient as possible and increase your productivity.
The time you get back, thanks to a good organization, you can use it for other things: your people, your own work or progress, or your rest. 🙂
My mindset about personal organization is the following: In the past, the most efficient people were those who had the information. Nowadays, knowledge is publicly accessible; almost everybody knows how to gather knowledge through networking or the internet. So the best of our kind are those who know how to organize their knowledge and be the most efficient of their time.
In this article, we cover the following:
The most important decision you can make
What tool should I use?
One crucial capability of the tool you will choose
My experience with how I organize my notes in my current work
Conclusion