I live and operate by three basic rules. Ready?

Plan carefully. Manage well. Communicate successfully.

Sounds simple, right? In principle, sure, but in the midst of organising a bracketed tennis tournament, dealing with online communities of gamers with a lot of (virtual) skin in the game, or handling the thousand other challenges that make up my life, I find it helps to go back to those three rules.

Everyone has a system. And mine works out pretty well – at least, for me.