We must stop. We cannot go on. It’s too painful.
We must stop using our email inbox as a to do list. We cannot go on running our days from that list of dozens, nay, …
Steer
Improving how we deliver sustainably and scalably.
The Real Reason
Why do we want an effectiveness system? (Yes, yes: to be more effective. And why do we want that?) It is not so that we …
Inbox Blocks
They grab our attention and then they just hang around. Not important enough to do anything with right now and possibly important enough that we’d …
Success Starts Where?
If success is the goal, where do you start? It turns out that there are just four places to start. Whether for yourself or your …
It’s not (really) personal
As complexity in our work goes up, the effectiveness of our groups goes down. With greater complexity, we lose our ability to intuitively see, understand, …
Why Your Tasks Management is Like Downton Abbey
It’s helpful to think of our need for an effectiveness system as the same need that executives, lords, and ladies (think of the popular costume …
Guilt and Delegation
As leaders (with or without title), we can sometimes feel guilty for delegating work to others especially when it is work that we have done …
Overextended
What do we do when there is too much to do? How can we get to working on the big, important things when there are …
The Alternative to Control
Where we don’t trust the future, the universe, or others, we try awfully hard to control or avoid (and avoid is really another form of …
Dismal vs. Simple Action
There are two kinds of action: dismal and simple. Dismal action is what you do when you feel bad. It is the sort of action …