I read an article in Inc. Magazine by Jeff Haden on 11 ways to de-clutter your day. In that article he talked about “eliminating permissions.” “The premise of eliminating permissions is that the actions we take every day are communicated to others as ‘permissions that we give’. Think about it: Arrive at meetings late and
I was having a cigar with my friend David Sasnett and we were talking about the importance of Leaders understanding the balance between planning and execution, between creating a strategy and driving action plans to get things done. “How many times have you seen a manager work on and on to refine the strategy, to
“Delay is the deadliest form of denial” “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” “Expenditures rise to meet income” “The Law of Triviality… briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum (money) involved” “The man who
Often we strive to be number one. To have the biggest market share. But often that share comes at a price. Customers may give you the largest share of their business, but will likely want the best rates in return. Or they may ask you to take pieces of business that are not so attractive
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself – Jack London Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day’s work – Ernest Hemingway Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get
One of the things I talk with people about regularly is the concept of sense of urgency: “He doesn’t have a sense of urgency” “How do I instill a sense of urgency?” “I have a higher sense of urgency and I feel like I’m pulling people along” There are several ways to think through this.
One of my goals of late has been to focus on self-awareness, and in that journey, I have been doing a lot of reading. When i was in boarding school, Hamlet was one of my subject texts for my A-levels. I continued my studies of this text when I prepared for my Oxford exams. Suffice
I Get Schooled by a Cowboy by Tania Fowler About a month ago now I started a discussion in one of my Linked IN groups that keeps on giving. I asked what the key ingredients are that go into productive communication.Here’s the blog entry I wrote on the responses to that question, but yesterday I had this
I have a bucket list. It’s my list of things that I want to achieve in my life. The bottom line for me is that I have the list and that I am spending some time trying to get those things done. In fact, I am trying to find more time to get those things
I have written about Dr Brennee Brown before. Amazing stuff. One of the things she talks about is that humans have an innate leaning towards “joy foreboding”. In other words, when we experience pure joy, pure happiness, we very quickly start to think about all the things that could happen to destroy that joy. It