Never Drop Your Price
When you are even a bit unsure about the value you deliver to your clients or your bosses, you will likely drop your price or …
Are We Doomed to Struggle with Our Tasks?
How well are you managing your effectiveness system? Is it up to date and helping you stay atop everything? Or is it a tattered, mouldering …
Small Talk Not Needed
Many of us–introverts and extroverts alike–have trouble meeting and engaging new people at networking events, conferences, and meetings. We feel out of place, exposed, and …
It’s Not That You Are Too Busy
Though commenting on how busy we are and how much we have to do has become a bit of a global pastime, please do not …
When Context Isn’t Enough
As we saw, you can get people to do more and more of the right things by helping them understand the context: what your organization …
Why Wouldn’t You?
What if every thought was a self-fulfilling prophecy? What if every notion, judgment, or idea you had would eventually become a reality? If it was …
Context
Getting people to do stuff. Sheesh. That’s tough. We try asking, telling, pleading, demanding, yelling, guilting, pushing, and praying. While these methods can work in …
How Long Will It Take?
“I want to focus on what’s right not what’s wrong.” “We want our meetings to be productive, meaningful, and efficiently planned.” “We will gather the …
It’s Not How Long You Stay
As I mentioned earlier, whenever you reach a zone where you are happy, quietly excited, and seeing unexpected miracles, you are plugged in. Once there, …
You Become a Target
When you give away to another something that you want (especially but not limited to core things like respect, love, appreciation, connection, safety, acknowledgement, etc.), …