Cursed due dates
Productivity tip: don’t put a due date on any task unless you’ve actually committed to completing it by a certain date for someone. May sound …
Stuck? Try not acting.
Sometimes the worst thing you can do is act When you are spinning your wheels, one temptation is to buckle down and work harder (the …
Blind To It
Show me any struggle–major or minor, personal or in your organization–and I’ll show you blindness. The solutions, the road out, the way forward are simple, …
Go for the Understanding
From the “you have to slow down to speed up” department comes this reminder: seek, first, to understand the other person’s perspective. Want to get …
5 Easy Pieces of Career or Corporate Strategy
Strategy exercises–whether for your career or your organization–often fail because they are incomplete. They scratch the itch we all get to have our daily work …
Perspective is everything
How you look at anything–anything–matters. The instant you shift your perspective on any issue, the issue changes and the resolution becomes clear. You know this, …
What if you decided what success is?
If you look at it–really look at it–success for your life, career, or organization has to be what you say it is. Others do influence …
Unstick Your Strategy with an Often Ignored Type of Thinking
When getting the right strategy for you or your organization is proving difficult, it may be down to an odd way we all tend to …
Why selecting a niche is so dang hard and what you really need to do
A friend recently asked, “When you were starting did you have any difficulty pinpointing your niche?” Here’s how I answered: Selecting a niche is difficult. …
What’s your bias toward action?
There are three biases or ways of dealing with your list of tasks. Pushing to make things happen. Avoiding action due to some form of …