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WIREDTO MANAGE
Coordination for brains that weren't built for Gantt charts
A field guide to running projects and people with an ADHD brain. Grounded in research.
Inside the guide
Standard project management was built for a brain that isn't yours.
If you have ADHD, you already know. The Gantt charts, the daily stand-ups, the “just break it down” advice — they don't only fail. They fail, and then the failure gets misread, by everyone including you, as being bad at your job.
You are not bad at your job. Coordination — holding deadlines, sequencing dependencies, delegating, leading people — is a bundle of executive functions, and in ADHD those functions run differently. Standard tools fight that difference at every turn. This book stops trying to fix your brain and rebuilds coordination around how it actually works.
Twenty-three short chapters. One idea each. A ten-minute action at the end of every one — always optional, never homework. Read in any order. Start with whatever is on fire.
The problems, named the way you actually experience them:
- 1. Why coordination is executive function — and yours runs differently
- 2. Time blindness, and the deadline that ambushes you
- 3. The dependency you couldn't hold in your head
- 4. The task-switching tax that eats your whole day
- 5. Backward planning: making invisible prep time visible
- 6. Externalise everything — your brain is not a storage device
- 7. One visible board (and why kanban beats Gantt)
- 8. Body-doubling: starting the thing you can't start alone
- 9. Designing around hyperfocus instead of against it
- 10. Delegation as scaffolding, not weakness
- 11. Giving feedback that doesn't detonate
- 12. Receiving feedback when you have RSD
- 13. Burnout and the overcommitment trap
Grounded in research, not vibes. Every claim about how ADHD brains handle time, memory, task-switching, feedback and hyperfocus is drawn from published studies — all referenced at the back.
This is a field guide, not a lecture. It assumes the hard days are coming, because they are — and builds a way of running work that survives them.
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Digital narrated audiobook
Chapter MP3 tracks for the whole guide — listen in order, or jump straight to the chapter that's on fire. Available alone or with the written formats in the Complete Edition.
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Part of The Wired Collection
Wired to Manage sits beside Wired Differently, Wired to Write and Wired and Money — Rondanini Publishing's books for differently wired readers, built accessible from the start and tested, not just exported. Every format in one purchase; accessibility is never charged as a premium. See the whole collection.