“Change before you have to”
- Jack Welch
The hard drive on my MacBook Pro crashed this week, and put
my week into chaos. Naturally this
came at a highly inconvenient time as I was prepping to take on some additional
projects.
First I had to wait for my MackBook’s return from the Apple
Store, and then I had to rebuild my stuff by reloading all the files and
programs. The good news is that I
had my files backed up, the bad news is that I still had to reconfig everything.
It was while I was doing the reconfig that I realized I probably
needed to update the way I manage my schedule and productivity. I currently use Office for Mac 2008, and
sync its Entourage to a 4-year old Blackberry Pearl; and what became evident
is that I’m at the cliff for support on both these platforms. The smart thing to do is to move on.
This coming week, I’m going to say goodbye to my Blackberry
and switch to an iphone. From there, before end-of-year, I intend to migrate to
icloud. I’m still going to keep
Office for Mac because of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; but my email, schedule,
and task lists management will change.
The big question is what should I do about project
management software? There are
currently two pc notebooks in our household that have Microsoft Project, but
it’s a pain to have to use multiple computers, so I’m going to begin research
to see if there’s a suitable Apple or cloud based replacement.
If anyone has any good suggestions, please email them to me
at JohnPachecoBlogs at yahoo.com .
-JP
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2 comments:
John, would love to hear your take/ some words of wisdom/post election analysis.
@Anon- Thanks for your readership. As for the November election, the short answer is that the re-election of Obama was a tragic mistake for our country. However locally here in central Texas we did OK, social conservative Republicans took just about every race including judges and appeal courts.
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