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May 25, 2005
Getting wireless products and mortgage re-fi's done...
Just had two very interesting work days with very different sets of folks. Monday spent the day at Nextel in Virginia with their Wireless Products group. It was orchestrated by their VP, Danny Bowman, a super-enegertic ex-athlete who had picked up GTD paperback in the airport for its title (their slogan is "Nextel. Done."!)..and he'd become a champion. Turns out we had already done some seminars and coaching in another division, and it's always fun to have GTD triangulated like that.
(By the way, was delighted to find out that Nextel's new version of Blackberry has category capability with it's to-do list, which makes it actually GTD-friendly instead of the old simple alpha-sorted single list.)
Then shuttled up to Manhattan and gave a presentation for the first-ever conference for the whole mortgage finance industry, hosted by our super client, Flagstone Securities. 100+ financial-type execs, most of whom had left Wall Street positions to start their own more-entrepreneurial ventures in the new and rapidly growing segment of that world. Listening to them talk about the nature of those businesses and the products and services they deal in is still like trying to understand a complex foreign language (how can I have had so many investment banks and finance company clients for all these years and still not know what the heck they really do???!!! I suppose if I had a gazillion dollars, I'd have more of a need...!)
Interesting thing about Flagstone is that one of their silver bullets is a company blog that they use to post up-to-the-minute potentially relevant data from their research in that industry. It has supported their positioning as the go-to people in that niche, because it makes it obvious and out there what they know. Blogging does have that kind of we're-willing-to-show-what-we-know-(and-don't-know) spin to it, which, for that kind of knowledge work based company, I can imagine would make a difference
Posted by David at May 25, 2005 06:29 AM
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(By the way, was delighted to find out that Nextel's new version of Blackberry has category capability with it's to-do list, which makes it actually GTD-friendly instead of the old simple alpha-sorted single list.)
Wow, that's good news. It's my only complaint about my Blackberry.
Posted by: Tom Dignazio at June 1, 2005 07:57 AM
I too was excited about the categories capability of the Blackberry software upgrade. Now I wish that I could filter on due date also with category. Right now, just sorting on due date is having to suffice.
Posted by: Brad Jackson at June 3, 2005 12:40 PM
