Choosing to Relieve Your Company’s Growth Pains
Growth hurts. We don’t like the complexity. Our company used to be simpler but now has more people and more moving parts. We spend time …
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How to Have Simple and Effective Processes
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. –Albert Einstein Our companies thrive when we have the simplest possible systems, processes, and …
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 …
Not Too Much, not Too Little
Too much structure, process, and regulation strangles any endeavor. Too little limits growth and, ultimately, everyone’s happiness. Just the right amount makes things easier, speeds …
Cursed Human Resources
We are still cursed with the Industrial Age concept of Human Resources. Despite wonderful shifts over the past half century–created by great people in HR and …
How to Pick the Best Few Things To Do
They say that we can be most productive not by getting more done but by picking the few best things to do. But how to …
Where The Fault Really Lies
Part of our job as leaders (with or without title) is to find things that need improvement. We look for whatever keeps going wrong or …
Due Dates Can Be Killing Our Effectiveness
So that we don’t let a task to fall off of our radar, we mark it with a date. We read an email or look at …
We must stop. We cannot go on. It’s too painful.
We must stop using our email inbox as a to do list. We cannot go on running our days from that list of dozens, nay, …
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 …