The Fallacy of 100 percent. The good and bad of employees running full speed.
No one can go 100 percent 100 percent of the time. It’s July, so I’m spending a fair amount of time watching the Tour de France, which has me thinking about endurance and maintaining high levels of performance for extended...
continue readingTime management tip: Start with a jar and some rocks
Here we are, looking at twelve fresh new months. There's no telling what you can get done in 2016. Just as a little New Year's door prize, I want to offer one of my favorite time management analogies. I've heard...
continue reading“We are in a gravitational pull toward multi-tasking”
"And we must fight it like the dickens," says Julie Morgenstern, New York Times bestselling author of "Time Management from the Inside Out." The idea of doing one thing at a time, of slowing down to focus solely on the...
continue readingMonday Zen: Building a Back-to-School Feel Into Your Work Calendar
In the college town were I grew up, the school year marked the rhythm of our lives, the high and low tides of our community. As students arrived in the fall and the population swelled, you could feel the energy...
continue readingTime Management Tip: Do It Before It Makes Your To-Do List
When some new small task presents itself, do you add it to your To Do list? I enjoy crossing things off the list so much, I've even added something to my list after I've already done it and immediately checked...
continue readingHow to Find Time for Your Most Important Work
True or false: You can relate to the following statements: • “I feel like I’m not giving the right amount of attention to what’s most important.” • “I have too many meetings to attend, and I can’t get any ‘real’...
continue readingSchedule Tough Decisions Early in the Day
If you want to grease the skids for a promotion at your next performance review or increase the odds of your pet project gaining budget approval, schedule those meetings early in the day. Decision fatigue, identified by researchers as the...
continue readingHow Do You Make Time To Make?
This is the bane of every creative mind ever promoted into management. When you're spending your days in meetings and supervising the work of others, how do you carve out time to do the stuff you really got into your...
continue readingWhat Do Your Meetings Say About Your Culture?
Walk into a meeting in any major corporation and you get an instant snapshot of the culture. Some companies take their role as hosts quite seriously, offering individually made cups of coffee or tea from a Keurig machine, bottled water...
continue readingTo Be More Productive, Work Fewer Hours
Although it's not a recent study (it was actually published in 1993, despite all the current online attention) Ericcson's article, titled "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance," suggests that you'll be more successful if you...
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