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Adding to the Heap Won’t Help You Work Through It

If you’ve already got too much to do, adding more to the heap won’t help you work through the heap. This is obvious at a conceptual level. Yet, in our daily practices, we often continue to take more on than we can do without even considering the heap we already have. There are really only [...]

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Watch This Before Our Next Meeting

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch this video.] We’ve all sat through a bad meeting. If we’re honest, we’ve all probably led a bad meeting, too. Al Pittampalli’s new book, Read This Before Our Next Meeting, is a great antidote to the bad meetings. In [...]

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How Are You Capping Your Business’s Growth?

Regardless of whether we’re doing it intentionally or not, we all cap our business’s growth. There are the usual suspects like under-charging and not filling the demand our customers have already expressed, but there are some other ways that are much less obvious than those. For instance, I have quite a few colleagues that have [...]

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Decisions, Decisions… Are You Planning or Stalling?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Al Pittampalli of The Modern Meeting Standard. What do you do when faced with an important decision? Whether it’s deciding to launch a new product, whether or not to apply to graduate school, or to design your blog using Tumblr or WordPress, what’s your approach? Do you [...]

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The Free Planners for August 2011 Are Available

Here are the free planners for August 2011. August – what many of us count as the last month of summer. Don’t kill the messenger here. I see two trends that people do when planning for August. The first is to play for the rest of the summer and wait until September to really get [...]

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The Free Planners for July 2011 Are Available

Here are the free planners for July 2011. Remember when I said June was a transition month last month? It was a transition to summer, but the change isn’t just the season – as our environments change, so does our moods and temperaments. What does productivity look like for you in July? Is it different [...]

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Build From the Red Line, Not The Deadline

Imagine that during a normal week, you set goals and deadlines that assume you’ll be able to do, say, 10 units of creative work. And that, during a normal week, you actually get 4 units of creative work done. Imagine that during light weeks, you set goals and deadlines that you’ll be able to do, [...]

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Get More Done By Limiting White Space

An aside from Dan Ariely’s latest piece in Wired got me thinking. Here’s a quick excerpt: Think how differently we’d interact with our calendars if the default was for time slots not to be empty—if, instead, they were prepopulated with tasks like thinking, writing, and planning. We’d be far less likely to neglect the opportunity [...]

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Make a Change In Your Business

The fun part about running a business is that there are always things that can be changed. The not-so-fun part about running a business is that there are always things that can be changed. And, all too often, we make some changes without really thinking through why we’re making them. Here are two basic questions [...]

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