I have started to write my next book about how to be more efficient, more organized, in order to reach our objectives. For a long time, this has been a key question for me. How can I do what I want to do despite what seems to me the endless possibilities of emergency and disruption… Since 5 years, I have been reading many, many books about it, and finally by picking a little bit of each, I have been able to have a method which works

So, I’m preparing a complete toolbox of the tools that I’m using, how I’m using them and why I’m using them.

Now, everyday, I use 750words.com to write my book. It is also a nice coincidence that Jason Theodor proposed this week-end to ask him a question and he’ll come back with 10 ideas.

Here are his 10 ideas for my book title: 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes™ for Book Titles are Work Efficiency:

1. Being Efficient at Work [the obvious one!]
2. Work to Live: How to shorten your time at the office to lengthen your life
3. The Right Tool for the Job: How to Save Time At Work
4. Work-arounds: Tips and Tricks for Efficient Employment
5. Take Some of the Work Out of Work
6. Work, Work, Work. That’s Not All You Should Do.
7. Post-its™ Are Your Friends - and other lessons from a life at work
8. Short-cuts from Nine to Five
9. The Evolution of Work
10. Work Smarter, Not Harder

I highly recommend you to have a look at his slides on creativity.

The book will be out 1st December, countdown in the right column.

Don’t hesitate to send me your experience or the tools you’re using. I’ll create a group to share them soon.

Shortly, I’m working on a marketing mission (can not say more but it’s nearly done).

I’m also preparing the Cloud and ICT 2.0 Summit with the European Tech Tour Association (don’t hesitate to contact me if you’re willing to know more about it and if you’re interested in becoming a sponsor :). This gives me the opportunity to attend the Nordic Tech Tour next week.

There is also a complete redesign of Bloobble in the pipe. I’m so pleased to work on it with Patricia Gallot-Lavallée, best experience designer. Some are talking about creativity, she is doing it!

And I’m also about to start a new activity, but I’ll tell you more about that in due time.

And as I’m a big fan of Seth Godin, I could not resist being part of this worldwide meetup around his latest book Linchpin. I’m organizing the one which will take place next monday at 8:00 pm in Geneva (Les Halles de l’Ile). Please come and let’s share

Instead of it being linear (like Powerpoint or Keynote), you can arrange the pages in a grid or checker board, in a non linear way .

From any page, then, I can go back, forward, up or down, and the four diagonals as well. So depending on the conversation I’m having with my audience, my ‘next’ page can be any of them.

There are some nice tools already available  to do that.

Prezi.com

Prezi.com is free if you agree to make your presentation public, whereas you have got 2 versions starting at $59/year.

Just press the arrow below (one psuh = one view) to see this demo of Prezi.

As we are still in January, I continue on my new year’s goals ideas Did you include time to market in 2010 as one of your company goal?

Feel free to use in your presentation, to share…

How can you set your goals

You need to start by setting tangible goals, SMART goals that can be measured and have dates to accomplish tasks by. Personally, I like to set up 3 key goals, not more.

You also need to set the reason, the purpose, the motivation behind each of these goals.

Last, but not least, for each goal, you need to associate a detailed action plan.

I hope you give this some thought and consider sharing how you set your goals for 2010 here. It’s been very helpful to me over the last few years, and I predict it’ll help me navigate the complexities of my upcoming 2010, as well.

I just found the perfect illustration (scott c | via doobybrain).

I’ll write a review soon, but in the mean time… a little cartoon!

Feel free to share or use in your presentation!

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken”. I love this quote from Oscar Wilde and I am here today to tell you a little bit about who I am, from A to Z.

Madam Toastmaster, fellows toastmasters and welcomed guests,

A is for Arthur, my 10 years old son, and

B is for Bath, the beautiful town in the UK where he is born.

C is for Cooking, an activity which I started very seriously when we moved to the UK….

D is for Dreams… “Let me be a dreamer” as per the famous the Supertramp’ song.

E is for Ecosystem, business ecosystems. It is the subject I’m currently working on as a consultant,  organizing workshops to help companies develop their own ecosystem.

F is for French. I am born near Bordeaux where I spent my childhood. I have also lived near Paris, in Grenoble, in Bath, and now I am in geneva for 4 years now.

G is for geek. I am a geek.I share my office with a wifi rabbit, I read my books on an amazon kindle, I have an automated iRobot’s hoover at home, I listen to podcasts on my iphone…

H is for high-tech. I have studied microelectronic at school and work in the semiconductor and electronic market since then.

I is for Ideas. I like Ideas. I believe that Big ideas are… small ideas that no one killed too soon.

J is for Job. I am Self employed marketing consultant.

K is for Kaizen. It is a japanese word which means “improvement” and is commonly used as “continuous improvement.” It is my philosophy, improve step-by-step, little-by-little every day.

L is for Life. Trying to “Live with Passion” as The Coach Tony Robbins keeps saying since 30 years.

M is Marketing. Even though I studied microelectronic,  I have been working as a technical marketing since 15 years now.

N is for Nespresso. “What else?”. I am part of the success of Nespresso, you know…  Yeah, with my  4 to 6 cups of coffee per day.

O is for Optimistic. Not only is the glass always half full, I’m sure I can find some “happy” around here somewhere for your glass as well..

P is for Painting.  I started painting this year, acrylic and oil… and I really like it.

Q is for Quick. I don’t like to wait, I want quick results.

R is for read. You’ve heard of alcoholics. You’ve heard of workaholics. Well, I am a reader-aholic.

S is for Speaker of course. What I’d like to become, my goal for the next years, a professional speaker.

T is for Time. I have a problem with time, I’m sure my days don’t have 24hours…

U is for Ulysse, my 4 years old son. Life with him is already an odysseus.

V is for very, very happy to be here.

W is for webmaster. I launched a website to share industry presentations 2 years ago. It allowed me to meet many people virtually.

X is for Xtremely annoyed I can’t find any good X-words

Y is for year. Each year I decide new things I want to do.

Z is for Ze end.

We have arrived, now, where we began. I told you 26 things about me, about who I am. Everyday, I try To truly be myself, as everyone else is already taken…

To find out more about Toastmasters:

• Article from Andrew Dlugan
• Toastmasters web site

Fell free to share or use in your presentations!