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Paul Akers

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1016 total appearances

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The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So everything that's coming out, you must be captured into a big trash can.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

Just gets dumped into that trash can.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

And then every two hours, you look in that trash can, that capture can, and you pull those things out and you put them in the appropriate list on where the work is done.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So when I look at that, send the thing to Dwayne, I would put that on my telephone message list.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So I have a list, all the messages I need to return.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

If it's something I do on the computer, I put it on my computer list.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

If it's something I do at home, I do at home.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

If it's something I do in the injection molding department at FastCap, it's on my injection molding.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So when I walk into injection molding, I open up that list.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

I say, these are the five things I need to do in injection molding.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So everything is based on the proximity.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

The list is based on the proximity of where the work is done.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

This is the basic principles of getting things done.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

So I have the most amazing thing on my phone of everything I do from when I speak, when I get on a flight, when I'm remembering people's names, to the songs I'm learning on the guitar.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

to what I do when I'm in Japan, when I get on the bus, when I start up my plane.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

Anything in my life has a list of where the work is done.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

And when I go to my airplane, when I go to my house in Maui, when I go to my house in San Diego, I click on that before I get on the plane.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

And I say, oh, San Diego, I need to bring two bidet toilet seats and one blender.

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

right?

The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
136: Stop Solving Your Team's Problems with Paul Akers

Instead of getting to San Diego and say, damn, I forgot those bidet toilet seats in the blender.