Subtraction in Action
Reducing your strategic focus to only a few key projects is the best way to accelerate your progress. But while it sounds good, doing it for real is hard. Let’s say you are the Founder of a growing start-up, and six weeks ago you had a strategic planning retreat. Somehow, you left with a […]
Less is More in Strategy
Prefer to watch rather than read? Here’s a short 6-minute video. Gardening Sometime early in the pandemic I decided I wanted to have a flower garden. I began planting things. Some of them grew well, some not. Eventually, it became a colorful garden. But soon, my pretty blooms got straggly, and stopped flowering. I was […]
Get Focused Faster-Video
Everyone knows that multi-tasking is a disaster. But even if you are wise enough never to try it, you still need to change tasks and shift your focus and context. Some of us are better than others at getting into a deep state of concentration. Here’s a video preview of next week’s article on the […]
Making Working from Home REALLY WORK!
The notion of working from home seems so awesome. No need to dress up. Work with the cat on your lap. Never search for a parking spot. No commute and therefore no sitting in traffic. Plus, no annoying colleagues to stop by and interrupt you. Yet, for most people who transition from an office to […]
What Grows in Silence?
I happened to be at an unusual event where the primary speaker had laryngitis. As a frequent sufferer myself, I felt a lot of compassion for him. But his ailment served as an interesting object lesson and reminder for me, and perhaps it will be useful for you too. Those of us who work in […]
Distracted Brain
According to recent research at the University of Washington, immersion in a virtual reality, snowy landscape has measurable effects on both the areas of the brain responsible for pain, and on the experience felt by patients suffering from chronic pain. We see another example of a similar effect in ourselves when we are listening to a […]
Put on Your Thinking Cap
Most people arrive at their desks and the only thing scheduled in their calendars are meetings; that is, places to put their bodies. If you are slightly more evolved in the management of your time and productivity, then along with meetings, you also have scheduled actions like writing, going places, research and making phone calls. But […]
You Can Do Anything, But Not Everything
As I have been researching successful new year resolutions and talking to people about their own plans for self or business improvement in the new year, I have encountered an interesting trend. Many of the people who write or call me, folks who are enthusiastically approaching the new year and their resolutions, lots of them seem to […]