The One Thing We Forget About Getting Stuff Done
We spend much of our energy on getting everything done either by ourselves or through others. But there never seems to be enough time. So we …
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Why We Can’t Mandate Best Practices
Sure, when we learn a helpful tool or idea, we want to share it. But we as leaders can’t mandate it. Forcing others to use …
Selecting What NOT To Get Done
It’s not about getting it all done. We can’t even get most of it done. There’s just too much we could do and more is …
The Siren Songs That Tempt Every Leader
Trying to figure it all out and get it all done are the siren songs of leadership. They snare us every time. We can avoid …
Swayed By Reality
The sages tell us that the formula for creating any outcome is belief->actions->results. This is a leverage formula. We leverage action into results because we …
Don’t Try To Fix It
We have been trained to believe that we have to fix what’s wrong. Nah. Don’t try to fix it. It’s waaaaay faster to grow what’s …
Discipline as Freedom
There’s the common sort of discipline where we buckle down and do what we should. It feels like restriction. Then there’s chosen discipline where we …
Productivity Boost From NOT Improving Your Productivity System
A productivity system helps us capture, organize, and plan things to do. Whether we use an electronic or paper-based system, we want it to be …
Give Yourself These Important Gifts
Running around, overwhelmed, and (truth be told) only just keeping it together probably isn’t what we signed up for. But it is not necessary to be …
Why Getting Our Way Is Worse Than We Think
We have generally two ways to get others to do what we want. We can use “get my way” methods or we can go for …