10 Hidden Time Wasters
We often inadvertently waste time because we don’t recognize the symptoms. Check out the video list of the video’s 10 hidden time wasters and tell me which ones were a surprise to you.
Communications
How to speed up operations and deliveries.
With clients expecting orders to be turned around faster than in the past, how can a small business speed up their operations?
How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”?
I recently received the following question: How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”? I’m not a fan …
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You can’t get your money, unless you ask for it
4 weeks after I had completed his taxes for him, I asked this friend-first-removed if he had received his refund yet. He confessed that he has the forms signed, but he has not mailed them in yet.
“Well — you know you can’t get your money, until you mail the forms in….”
It’s the same in life and work. It’s more difficult to get what you really want if you don’t explicitly ask for it and then follow-through with your plan.
Keeping an external job offer alive
It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?
Taking Responsibility: what dog training can teach us about management
After many years of traversing the globe as a strategy consultant, family and health issues dictated a travel respite …
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How to manage a project
The essentials of project management in under 500 words What’s a project? A project is any endeavor that takes time …
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How can a career vision help me with my career
Steve Wynkoop and I were talking a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about what steps to change your position in the your current company.
What if two product managers disagree on something and can only agree to disagree?
I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals. …
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Do one scary thing a day.
This week we will take a short-cut into slapping ourselves back on the path. We won’t spend time investigating why and what took us off our course. Instead, we will jump into action with the idea of “doing one scary thing a day” to help keep up moving forward at a faster pace.
What we can learn from Judge Judy
It’s impossible not to judge. Telling someone else “not to judge” — shows you have made the judgment that they are judging. Most opinions, descriptions, decisions, views, rulings, and critiques are judgments.