Two Clear Tips for Managing Your Details
There are times when managing the little things can feel like drinking from a fire hydrant. No matter how many emails you knock off, a [...]
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Mar, 2011
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Feb, 2011
Busting Through Excuses for NOT Delegating
Do you regularly do things that you probably should be delegating? Do you find that your top projects keep getting bumped? Are you always running [...]
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Feb, 2011
Delegating: Your Best Source of Leverage
I am occasionally an ideas guy, and work to bring these ideas to action and have enjoyed some success with them over the years. I [...]
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Jan, 2011
Leading Productive Teams
I have always said that having a strong, productive team is the best way to achieve great things. Establishing a strong team has been a [...]
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Jan, 2011
5 Steps to Improving Team Productivity
Resolutions aside, wouldn’t it be nice to feel really productive, I mean really productive in 2011? Your team is your best source of leverage so [...]
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Dec, 2010
Best Way to Wrap Up the Year: Learn to Apologize
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.” Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist: For Better or For Worse Never easy [...]
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Dec, 2010
Give Yourself a Present: 3 Things You Can Do to Finish Strong
Is this year going by fast or what? I feel like I just got used to writing 2010, and here we are in December already. [...]
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Nov, 2010
3 Balls Approach to Prioritizing
I tend to take on a lot of things – sometimes too much. While I naturally want to get everything done, sometimes I need to juggle. Not being a circus star, I need to prioritize all the balls I have in the air. Otherwise, I may end up dropping the wrong one. When I consider my range of tasks, there are usually three types: the must dos, the should dos and the could dos.
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Nov, 2010
Incrementalism—the new science of getting things done
We are all bombarded with demands on a daily, almost hourly, basis. Deciding how to prioritize and complete tasks can profoundly impact our productivity and [...]
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Nov, 2010
Why can’t we get this prioritizing thing right?
People talk about prioritizing a lot. And there is no doubt why. The word offers such promise for a calm and stress-free work day. However, [...]