Balance Your System for Sanity
To stay effective and sane, balance the complexity of your personal effectiveness system. If it is too complex, you won’t use it. If it is …
Steer
Improving how we deliver sustainably and scalably.
You Don’t Need to Know How
A client and friend of mine tends to get good parking spots at the busiest times. At the crowded supermarket, at a busy restaurant, and …
Effectiveness Habit #8: Be Explicitly Win-Win
I had said that there are now three new effectiveness habits to go with the original seven. Here is first of those three, Effectiveness Habit …
Little Big Things
Staying calm in the middle of a growing conflict. Saying thank you sincerely. Listening sincerely. Telling someone what they are good at. Acknowledging a mistake …
Do What You Can
Stephen Covey, in his famous book the The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, never said, “When you want to control, stick to what you …
Ignite Others’
What if the only way to get anyone to do anything was to show them how doing what you suggest generates the exact wins they …
Assume It Is
Fear that a problem is too big, too horrible, too far gone, or otherwise unsolvable is a wholly insufficient starting point for those who are …
How Do You Approach a Problem?
There are three ways to approach any problem. All three can work. (Before you read further, think of a problem bugging you or your organization. Keep this problem …
Busyness and Angst: a Cure
Essayist and cartoonist Tim Kreider wrote the following in his New York Times opinion piece called the The ‘Busy’ Trap. “Busyness serves as a kind …
You Have Everything You Need To Get Started
Think for a moment about that project you would love to do, you have been wanting to do for quite a while, and you have …