Effectiveness Habits: Quick Success Story
For a bit of encouragement on your work with the Effectiveness Habits, let me share a quick success story. My friend and client, Moe, recently …
The We Lens and Win-Win
Success for you and your organization is simple using The Four Lenses of Success: What, We, Can, and Do. Let’s explore the “We” lens. Help …
3 Things You Must Do to Hire Well
Whether you are in a position to hire someone or are at the mercy of the hiring done by others, bad hires inflict costs on …
Plug In
One quick way to cultivate access to you (Effectiveness Habit #7) is to read brief quotes, sayings, or thoughts that you agree with and that …
Reflection
The brilliant and practical management consultant, Peter Drucker once said “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective …
Long and Complex is Better
Make your Effectiveness lists as long and complex as needed. And no more than needed. Why? Because it is far better to have all the …
Productivity Tax or Tools?
Your success with your Effectiveness Habits and the supporting set of lists depend to a great extent on how you see them. If you see …
Before You Can Select a System for Your Lists
Readers have asked for specific suggestions for tools–electronic and paper–for tracking and managing their Effectiveness Habits lists. An we will be looking at several very …
Paper or Electronic?
Reader Debbie Fletcher asked, “Do you have a mechanism or system that you use (or can suggest) to support the approach that you are recommending? …
Beware Artificial Urgency
Artificial Urgency is what you do to make some tasks stand out in your lists because you fear you won’t get them done otherwise. Artificial Urgency …