Everybody,
I wish you a merry christmas (or happy holidays, for the sake of political correctness)!
This year, I sent out a christmas letter via email in German - so if you did not get one, but want one, my apologies - my “family and friends”-addressbook-group is far from complete. So don’t be sad, but write me an email to florian@floho.com and I’ll send it to you right along.
Celebrate, enjoy the silent moments and have a good time y’all!
Florian
Archive for December, 2007
Hey there!
GTD in consulting - well, doesn’t that sound like an interesting proposition!
Unfortunately, I just had the idea to write such an article. Today, I presented GTD for my colleagues, and they quite liked it (did it old school with a flipchart, that was fun), so I might try and look for specific applications in the consulting life.
Anyhow, this week was crazy, this is why I did not post. I took over part of an existing assignment on Monday night, and since then is has been an intensive ride. I had to get into the topic, up to speed, see what has been done, what needs to be done, and so forth… luckily, both the colleague I worked with and the colleague whose part I took over were very helpful and enabled me to find my place - still, transaction cost was high, and so the hours were long… my toughest week so far, but rewarding as well: Our lead valued our efforts, and today we can deliver a good final result to our customer, which means that I can start the weekend with no open loops and a fresh mind 
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I am really glad I set a mid-week almost-there-deadline for my current project. As could have been expected, finalizing the research and getting all bits and pieces in place takes more time than I thought… so if this was Friday - final delivery-Friday - I would be in trouble. But it is Tuesday, I can rearrange my schedule and still get everything done by the time it has to be done. That also means I can go home now and get some sleep - thank goodness
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Weeks with the company: 4
Assignments: 2
Places I have been: 3 (Berlin, Offenbach, Les Fontaines)
Flights: 4
Train rides: 6
Working hours per week: Could still sleep at night
Diet Coke consumption per week in liters: 6
Travel expenses: Four digits
Salary: Yep!
Stupid questions I asked: Many
Stupid questions that were answered: All (nice folks here!)
Times I regretted taking this job: 0
So far, so good!
Hope you have a good start into the last month of the year.
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