Operating on Perpetual Overload? Is email creating a workload log jam? Here are the top 3 e-habits that undermine our ability to get to our high impact activities and some effective Focus Management techniques that can help.
No Time to Focus on the Big Picture? Try Focus Management In today's hectic, fast-paced work world, it's easy to get caught up in the details. Try these 7 Focus Management best practices--a strategy to manage "big picture" high impact activities.
Want to Manage Your Time? Get Real! Most Time Management theory offers little more than idealistic, pie-in-the-sky techniques and suggestions. Discover the 5 "reality checks" of practical, realistic time management and the 5 real tips for real people.
People Are Our Most Important Asset! Just like with equipment, the costs are contained in the short term at the expense of the long-term value of the "asset". Employees are used up and then discarded just like equipment that was not properly maintained.
And who suffers the most in the long term from this shortsighted policy?
Oddly enough, it's not the employees that suffer the most, but the company itself.
The Most Important Thing Youll Ever Do Leaders do a lot of things, but one is more important than all the others. If you aren't building the confidence of your team every day, you aren't really doing your job. The upside potential is unlimited and there is no downside. I'll show you how to make it happen.
One Crazy Cookie Being a leader can drive you nuts if you let it. The wisdom wrapped in a fortune cookie might just keep you sane!
A Journey of a Thousand Miles That's right; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Too bad a lot of us never get around to taking that first step. Henry Ford helps put it in perspective.
Whadda Jerk! When you think about it, it's amazing how stupid other people are. What is even more amazing is that other people probably think you're as stupid as you think they are! What to do with all this stupidity! Carl Jung has a way out.
A Man and His Razor Ockham's Razor is the cornerstone of modern scientific inquiry. It's also an essential tool for leaders and managers in any organization. Kinda scary that some of the best advice for leaders today comes straight from the 14th century...
Burger on a Bun Decision Making Have you ever had the experience of work through a problem to everyone's satisfaction only to discover a few days later that one of the team members, "still isn't quite sure..." about the agreed upon course of action? Instead of being moved to violence, checkout this article. You'll learn how to make decisons that stick!
The DNA of Motivation Get rich! Get skinny! Scale the corporate ladder! This article has all you'll ever need to know! The key to success is motivation. I've cracked the code and am passing it along to you.
Great Hires: Avoid Costly Mistakes Picking people for a job is like going to the store to buy apples. Before you go, you ought to know whether the apples are to be eaten fresh, make into applesauce, baked into a pie or made into juice. Then, you can make the appropriate choices. This is also true for hiring winners.
Cold Water Comments - What They Are and How to Manage Them! Cold Water Comments are those comments, phrases and ideas that are meant to discourage, disparage, discredit and generally douse your ideas. They can squelch creativity, cease your brainstorming efforts and disrupt the goal of a meeting. This article gives you specific things you can do to stop the cold water.
Great Groups! - Getting a Group to Think Like a Genius Wouldn't it be great to have an Edison or Einstein, or Mozart at your next meeting? If you had a genius at your meeting, do you think you might come up with better results? Let me be the first to tell you that those people won't be at your next meeting. But there are some things you can do as a facilitator - some techniques and tactics that you can use with the group that will help them work better.
Six Reasons to K.I.S.S. Keep it Splendidly Simple! We can serve both ourselves and our clients better if we remember to keep our proposals, project plans, reports and other services more elegant, or simple. Learn six reasons to K.I.S.S.
9 Tips for Getting the Most From Your Conference Investment All professionals attend conferences, seminars, and trade shows each year. Through my observation and person experience here are my top tips for maximizing your time and monetary investment in these events.
6 Ways to Keep Things Simple We can have greater success with our Clients when we make our work processes and agreements simpler and more elegant. This article will give you ideas for making your contracts and commitments, projects and plans, reports and relationships with Clients simpler.
Meringue Made Simple Using meringue to top a fruit pie is an easy and elegant way to serve these delicious pies. Lemon meringue is the most popular meringue type pie but you can tr...
Of Courage and Greatness Courage is something that is reflected and reciprocated, and is by no means, inherent. When we are ordinary, we are morally ample and when we are surreal, we ar...
Best Tips for Stress Free Child Party Games Throwing a child birthday party is a daunting task for many parents. By planning ahead, selecting the child party games and being prepared with music, prizes an...
True Health Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. My son, pay attention to what I...
DIY SEO - Part 2 Tags n Things Meta tags are the descriptive tags used by website designers to explain to the search engines exactly what your website is all about.
This article will help yo...
Buying a Home with Zero Down Payment in Irvine, CA There are many Purchase Loan options available today that allow most any qualified homebuyer to purchase a home in Irvine, CA with zero down payment. And you do...
Does My Bum Look Big in This? As a Manager is the feedback you get the truth, or is it what the workforce think you want to hear?
Themes of Shade A Shade Garden can be created in any of several different types of shade. It can be in the mottled shade that comes from a broad leaf tree to the deep dark woo...
Cystic Acne and Some Natural Treatments More severe cases of acne tend to be characterized not just by the presence of pimples and blemishes, but also by the formation of nodules or cysts. Acne that ...
Google Adsense: What You Need to Know! Heard a lot about Google AdSense and not sure what it has for you? Here is a quick listing of benefits which can be derived by adding Google AdSense to your web...
What Message Are You Sending Out? So much of what we can and cannot do has a lot more to do with our belief systems and our attitudes than by our financial or life's challenges around us.
Managers, Which PR Is Right For You? An effort built around a string of print and broadcast exposures? Or, a public relations initiative that delivers results far beyond simple publicity tactics....
Care And Maintenance Of The Human Hard Drive The human brain is very much like a hard drive. If you stop to think of it, they are both filled with billions of tiny bits of information, stored in the memor...
Mid-Life Crisis: Its Not Just for Men Anymore! A recent story in Career Journal begins:
"The "midlife crisis" has long been thought of as something that afflicts men and often involves expensive toys and sec...
Alone: Looking for Love Are you afraid you will be alone the rest of your life? Some people are and when that happens, they often develop dating distortions. Read on to discover how ...
Towing on the Net The Internet has grown significantly in the last several years. Almost all businesses today use email for everyday correspondence. It is being used in the towin...
How to Play the Violin Learning how to play the violin can be a difficult but rewarding experience. Playing the violin takes a large amount of knowledge and skill. Violinists must kno...
