超有用的时间管理技巧:看板法
Multitasking is probably the single most overrated skill in modern life. Only 3% of the population are “supertaskers,” according to a study from Ohio University. The rest of us just pretend to be. A number of systems have been developed to save us from our endless to-do lists. One such system is “Personal Kanban,” a just-in-time manufacturing process developed at Toyota in the late 1940s. James Benson, a former urban planner based in Seattle who authored Personal Kanban: Mapping Work — Navigating Life, says that industrial Kanban was a way for Toyota to avoid overproducing. He has adapted the system to help us reduce the “too many tasks on my mind” feeling. Personal Kanban works on two principles: Visualize your work, and limit your total number of “works in progress.” Setting up a system is simple: • Find a board with which you can use post-it notes or thumbtacks. On it, create three columns: Options, Doing, and Done. • Write your individual tasks down on separate cards. You might customize these tickets by urgency or type (perhaps personal or business) with colors or symbols. Post all of these cards in the “Options” column. • From that column, choose no more than three to move into the middle “Doing” column. These are the works in progress you’re focused on in a timeframe of your choosing. • When a task is complete, move it into the “Done” column, and choose a new option to pull into “Doing.” Gaining some self-awareness is the promise of sticking to this plan. In theory or practice, the best time-management systems aren’t about increasing churn; they’re about making room to be human. |