"He's Making a List and Checking It Twice"
The simple checklist has been around for eons of time. Even Santa is depicted as checking off his work. However in so many cases, our hectic lives have evolved away from this tool. We move too fast to...
View ArticleDreaming About Work
51% of small-business professionals end up dreaming about their work. Of those 51%, 70% turn their work dreams into action items upon waking. The above study was commissioned by Staples, the office...
View ArticleAvoid Crisis Management with These Simple Daily Schedule Changes
“Your lack of planning should not be my emergency.” Have you ever wanted to say that to someone? Could you be guilty of frequently interrupting others with a “Now!” issue? There is no question that...
View ArticleThe Stress Factor in Connecting Time, Money, and Productivity
“Where did this week go?” That common phrase can be interpreted in two different ways: It was a great week. I had so much fun/got so much done that it flew by. I don’t feel that I accomplished anything...
View ArticleCrisis Management: Project-Driven vs. Customer-Driven Settings (Part Two)
Continuing my response to the reader who requested advice for those who were on the “front lines” and didn’t have a project-driven day (see the original crisis management post), I’m going to address...
View ArticleImproving Executive Function: How Time Management Systems Strengthen Performance
Executive Function: assessing, prioritizing, assigning mental functions, tracking multiple activities, reflecting These are all characteristics that a good executive performs daily. They are also the...
View ArticleEfficiency in the Workplace – Focus Factors
We tend to blame others when we can’t concentrate on a project, and there’s some validity in that. After all, the average business person is interrupted about every three minutes. Interruptions...
View Article5 Steps to Meeting a Tight Deadline
It’s tough to work under the gun, but it’s something we all need to do from time to time, either because we put a project off until the last minute, or because we had a heavy dose of work dumped on our...
View ArticleProject Management: Never Be Overwhelmed
For most of us, the feeling of being completely stuck and overwhelmed by a giant project goes back as far as our middle school days – to right around that moment when we had to write our first five- or...
View Article“No Brainer” Techniques for Time Management
Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher, claimed, “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” That can be pretty scary, if you manage to actually find the time to reflect on the meaning....
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