aside 20 Dec

Mission Control

“Mission Control is an exciting new approach to corporate productivity that provides a dramatic increase in the productivity and effectiveness of your team, while reducing workplace stress.” (Source: leadershipinc.com)

Checked out the Mission Control two-day workshop courtesy Paul Gossen last week and I can definitely say that the time is well spent. I’ve already recouped a great chunk of the time spent at the workshop (and it’s only been a couple days).

Mission Control is a system that allows you to effectively take control of your time and get more accomplished, meet your commitments and gain peace of mind.

At the course, you learn a system – a way to interact with with standard tools such as Microsoft Outlook.

My mailbox only has six items in it, I sleep better and will be sending all my staff to learn about it soon.

  • http://www.chinarut.com Chinarut

    great to see another Mission Control graduate sharing online!

    I found you through Googling (ha – funny how this is a verb now…) “google calendar mission control”

    I haven’t looked through your blog yet to see if you are a Google Calendar user but my intention is to find people interested in automating the process of moving accomplishments between your calendar and your lists!

    the way this looks is an application using the Google Calendar API and I suppose as an accomplishment, it looks like:

    “Our team had peace processing our capture tools using a simple, easy to use, open-source piece of software that has you feel at peace being the leader of your life”

    or

    “Our team was proud to launch an open-source application that empowers Mission Control graduates around the world to leverage free, available resources Google provides to live lives out of accomplishment anytime, anywhere the Internet is and is not available!”

    aligned with either one?

    ok – my fundamental concern is “beauty” and going to stop crafting this comment in the spirit of keeping my body beautiful and having lunch! thanks for having me see this accomplishment too :)

  • http://www.raj.jp Raj Taneja

    Thanks for your comment on my blog. We’re actually using Exchange Server. When Google Corporate Mail made it’s debut, we tried using it but felt the system really lacked… so we ditched it and went back to Exchange.

    Google still has a long way to go if they’re going to be part of the corporate infrastructure. Message sensitivity and importance is a good start, for example (amongst 100s of feature requests).

    The killer in all of this was that when trying to dialog with Google about it, we received no response. I hate towing the Microsoft party line but eh.. even on the smallest client-side efforts, Microsoft has always been keen to respond.

    Regards,

    Raj

  • http://www.chinarut.com Chinarut

    you sound like a pretty technical guy – would you be open to having a conversation about Mission Control and less about calendaring technology with the assumption this will iron itself out?

    happy to fwd you a link to a forum thread I started leading 4 years ago when I first learned about the program!

  • http://www.raj.jp raj

    Would love to see the link!

  • http://www.chinarut.com Chinarut

    here is the thread I started

    and Matt Cornell’s thread after taking the course

    I hope this keeps u busy for a bit – I haven’t had the cycles to add my personal experience now that i’ve taken the course (on my NVDN list!) and want to reread Matt’s thoughts in retrospect!