Monthly Archives: April 2011

Using Mac Spaces

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The first time I tried using Spaces on the Mac, it really didn’t click for me. I recently found myself frantically trying to keep up with everything at work and getting distracted mid-thought by other tasks, that I finally decided I needed to try something new.

I decided to give Spaces a try and really stick to it. Today was day 1 in this experiment. I enabled 4 spaces and have designated the spaces as follows:

Space 1: My primary workspace (browsers, text editor, Evernote, etc.)

Space 2: Misc. (haven’t figured this out yet)

Space 3: Communications Apps (Skype, Mail, iCal)

Space 4: Media (iTunes, iPhoto, Twitter)

I actually used the option to constrain those apps to the designated spaces. I use hotkeys to navigate between spaces and I believe it actually helped today. I’ll stick with this for a while and see how it works out for me. Stay tuned!

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Leadership Mistake

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I recently sat in a meeting with some of my reports and another manager. One of my team members said something that according to the other manager wasn’t accurate and raised the tension in the room. The inaccurate information likely came from me, but not in exactly the way I said it. I ended up defending my own communications (potentially sliding the blame for misinterpretation to the team member) instead of taking full responsibility for the bad communication myself. After the meeting I realized I had made a mistake. I’m writing this as a reminder to myself that I should take the heat for my team in situations like these.

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