It’s not (really) personal
As complexity in our work goes up, the effectiveness of our groups goes down. With greater complexity, we lose our ability to intuitively see, understand, …
Why Your Tasks Management is Like Downton Abbey
It’s helpful to think of our need for an effectiveness system as the same need that executives, lords, and ladies (think of the popular costume …
Hell Is Not Other People
Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote (and others infamously misinterpreted), “Hell is other people.” He meant that it’s awful to restrict our understanding of ourselves to what …
Raise a Little Buzz
When a problem persists even if you seem to have tried everything, the temptation is to blame others, self, the world. It is far more …
Why Real Success is Simple
We usually think success is a result. Whether it’s a goal, end, possession, status, or achievement, we call something a success only after we have …
Buzz
We can plot every thought, feeling, emotion, and moment on a “buzz scale” that might go from from “dark and crappy” to “unbridled delight.” We …
Anchored Away
The extent to which you spend your quiet time (heck, even your noisy time) with your thoughts and words focused on what is, was, or …
Guilt and Delegation
As leaders (with or without title), we can sometimes feel guilty for delegating work to others especially when it is work that we have done …
Power and its Opposite
Let’s agree to be powerful leaders (with or without title). To do that, let’s first distinguish power from its opposite. Power is the stance of …
Overextended
What do we do when there is too much to do? How can we get to working on the big, important things when there are …