Time Management
Put An End To Useless Meetings: Stop Politicking. Start Solving
If you read this blog, you know that I hate useless meetings. I talk about how much I hate them a lot. And, I try to make recommendations to help my readers make them less useless. Unfortunately, useless meetings are a lot like a bad smell. You can’t just wave around a candle and have the problem solved. Maybe it’s…
Read MoreWant Better Leadership Team Meetings? Learn to Solve Your Issues
Want Better Leadership Team Meetings? Learn to Solve Your Issues I want to start by dragging the ugly truth into the cold, hard light of day. According to interviews by the Harvard Business Review only 5% of leadership team members think their company had a rigorous system for keeping their meetings focused. 12% believed…
Read MoreA Proven Tool For Work Life Balance For Small Business Owners and Executives
Personal Rocks: A Proven Tool For Work Life Balance For Small Business Owners Work life balance for small business owners and executives. It’s a phrase that almost sounds like an oxymoron in today’s hyper-competitive world. Too many small business owners work life balance means sleeping at least 6 hours a night and having one meal…
Read MoreDelegate and Elevate: How EOS Helps Small Business Owners Increase Efficiency
Delegate and Elevate: How EOS Helps Small Business Owners Increase Efficiency For most small business owners, CEO’s, and leadership team members a 50 – 60 hour work week is something that has long since been normalized. According to a survey done by The Alternative Board something like 82% of small business owners are working…
Read MoreRefuse To Let Your Meetings Suck
I work with a team that has amazing meetings. All the time. Every meeting. And do you know how they do it? They make a commitment at the beginning of every meeting that everyone there will do whatever it takes to accomplish something HUGE in the meeting. Think about it for a second. If you’re…
Read MoreTask Management
How many times have you begun the day with a small set of priorities that you want to accomplish, only to find that by the end of the day that you had totally forgotten about them and none of them got accomplished? It’s a great practice to have your most important daily tasks identified, but…
Read MoreThe critical question when setting great goals
The critical question when setting great goals The easiest thing in the world to do is to set a lousy goal. You’ve probably done it before, and if you manage people you’ve almost definitely seen it happen. What makes for a lousy goal? Ambiguity and generalities. See if any of these “goals” sound…
Read MoreThe Recipe for Ending the Endless Conversation
Some people have no problem ending a conversation. Once they deem the conversation over they walk away, slam down the phone, turn back to their computer, or do any number of things that the more genteel among us might consider rude. And most of the time, rude is bad. So if you’re trying to keep…
Read MoreMaster Your Email Inbox with One Simple Rule
If you’re like so many people, your email inbox is one of the most serious time sucks – and energy sucks – of your day. Ask yourself: Do you leave your email inbox open all the time on my computer screen? If not, do you check your inbox incessantly to make sure that nothing new…
Read MoreStop annoying interruptions. You know you want to…
Do you keep regular office hours? If you don’t, you’re making it easier for people to interrupt you, and harder for yourself to get things done. I assume that you spend time in your business. Probably a lot of time, and maybe more time than you’d like. When I say “keep office hours” I don’t…
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