<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Herding Cats: Ideas for Managing "All the Things" at Work</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Melissa</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Platkowski</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Herding cats. Wrestling an octopus. Climbing a hill of sand. Drinking from a fire hose. Do any of those idioms describe your work?  Have you grappled with finding a good system to help you organize your projects, tasks, and goals?  To plan your work, to plan your day? (Or let’s face it – to plan your next hour?) Our work is by nature dynamic, collaborative, unstructured, and unpredictable. We need tools that are just as flexible as we are to manage All the Things, and I’m finding some methods that work for me. Maybe some of them will work for you, too!</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">General Topics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">2018-10-17</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Conference or Workshop Item</mods:genre></mods:mods>