Productivity Tips

A new link (though not so new anymore) on the FranklinCovey web site is titled "Productivity Tips." It showed up in the last couple of months, I'm not exactly sure when, and has been sitting there on the home page ever since, minding its own little business. Clicking on this link takes you to "Productvity Tip #1." Yep, that's right, their very first one. Only now, in 2003 has FranklinCovey, formerly FranklinQuest and the Covey Leadership Center, started coming up with productivity tips.

This is their business for crying out loud! At the very least they could have picked a random sampling of paragraphs from any number of their books (7 Habits, 10 Natural Laws, 23 Fun Ways to Spend Your Afternoon) and had people go to Productivity Tip #34 on their first visit - and then a new one every time after that. Their web site already offers very little reason to return on a regular basis. The least they could do is pretend that its something new. But I do go back, what can I say - I owe a lot to these people. And when I do, and find to my dismay that they're still working on their second productivity tip, it makes me want to slowly burn my planners in retribution. Ok, not really. Maybe just rip it into small pieces and throw them into the wind. But then, when I take the time to reread Productivity Tip #1 (hey look, I'm wasting my time at your web site about time management! So there!) and find that it really is a random paragraph taken from 7 Habits (... or was it First Things First?) then I actually do burn my planner - ok, well the pieces that the wind didn't take away.

Its not that its a bad tip - its a great tip in fact, but I already knew it. So maybe next time I'll drop in at The David Allen Company web site and see if they've got any new coaches articles or perspectives to read. At least their's change every once in a while.