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growth pains
December 7, 2021December 7, 2021Leading, Strategy, Systems

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. […]

April 11, 2017Do, Leading, Systems

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 […]

November 28, 2016Do

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 […]

January 12, 2015Do, Leading

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 […]

HR
September 12, 2014Leading, We

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 […]

What now?
August 28, 2014Do

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. […]

blame
June 17, 2014Leading, We

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 […]

todo today
April 29, 2014Do

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 […]

whoa
March 12, 2014Do

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 […]

highclere castle
February 10, 2014Do

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 […]

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