Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of ThinkTankMen.com. “Work-life Balance. Work-life balance. Work-life balance.” You hear about it a lot. And given some recent stats that show […]
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Be Prepared to Make Bad Decisions
I’ve been thinking a lot about planning, decision-making, and execution lately. Okay, I always think a lot about those topics, but I’ve been thinking about them even more than usual. You’ve no […]
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 […]
Flee or Grab: How Do You React to New Technology?
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Luke. Think back twelve years: 1999, the end of the last century. What did your life look like then? I’m guessing it was […]
3 Questions to Ask Before You Hit Reset on Your Business
Drive they business, let it not drive thee. – Benjamin Franklin There are two occasions in which many small business owners want to press reset on their business: when things are going […]
Eyes Forward
When you’re looking at successful people, remember that you’re looking at people who have made a lot of mistakes in their time. They’ve bought the crap. They’ve bought into the crap. They’ve […]
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 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 […]
Soft Costs Are Real Costs
People will spend an inordinate amount of time to save a few dollars. There’s often a lightbulb moment that happens when you ask them to calculate their time-dollar value, because it reveals […]
Getting Results Takes Time
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. – Douglas Hofstader People often ask what they’re doing wrong when they’re not getting the […]
Voicemail Greetings Are First Impressions
A voicemail greeting is a first impression – one which can either set you up for future opportunities or shut the door before it’s even open all the way. Last week, I […]
How to Limit The Busyness In Your Business
Ever notice that the thing you most want to do in your business is the thing that’s the hardest to find time to do? It’s easy for the busyness of business to […]
My Second Run At Being A Captain
I found myself missing being in the Army last week. When Angela found out about it, she didn’t find herself missing us being in the Army, so a constructive and transformative conversation […]
Just Get It Done
There comes a time in the midst of busy lives and businesses when you just have to knuckle down and plow through some of the projects on your plate. Perhaps it would […]
Watch Your (Own) Lane
“Everyone knows the tactics by which I am victorious, but no one knows the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” – Sun Tzu “Watch your lane.” Spend a little time around […]
Complexity Changes During A Business’s Growth
As businesses move through different stages in their lifecycle, they gain and shed levels of complexity. While it’s true that more mature businesses generally carry greater levels of complexity, the kind of […]
The Two Legs of the Relevancy Journey
The journey of relevancy is split between becoming relevant and remaining relevant. What are you going to do to remain relevant?
Why Working From Your Email Inbox Doesn’t Work
Many people work from their email inbox, but it doesn’t really work. This article addresses why it doesn’t work and provides a couple of alternatives.