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Category Archives: Personal Skills
Learning To Be Effective – comments on Kelley’s How To Be a Star At Work
Learning to be an effective manager is almost entirely a self-guided learning enterprise. Almost no business schools even approach the topic despite the hundreds of courses they offer on almost every functional aspect of management[[1]] No Significant Differences between Stars … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Change Management, Integrity, People, Productivity, Strength
Tagged bell labs, business problems, business schools, collective efforts, effective manager, henry mintzberg, high performance organization, management, management development, performance, problem solving, problem solving skills, raw intelligence, robert e kelley, strategies
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Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit
I have used David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity (Penguin: NY 2001) both personally and with clients for a number of years. Recently I volunteered to lead a discussion of the book’s approach to personal … Continue reading
Managing Key Personnel – Do What Is Inevitable – evasion and self-deception will not work
Recently I was speaking with the owner of a financial services firm. She has 15 people in her organization which is now almost 18 years old. By any measure a successful firm. She told me about one person who has … Continue reading
Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?
Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase “time management” returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with ‘time management” in the title or … Continue reading
Podcast – What If Agreements – get them in place now, before a what if occurs
Put your Founders’ Agreement in place before the inevitable business conflicts arise.
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Too Much Information – learn to control those interruptors
A continuing hot topic here is the surge of interruptions that consume our work day (and evenings, too). I have talked about this earlier in these postings, Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information and Multitasking, Too … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity
Tagged creativity, instant messaging, interrupters, iphone, multitasking, performance, problem solving, quality level, Time
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Hiding Innovations from Customers
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I learned something quite startling. The age-old problem of rolls of aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and other rolled goods jumping out of the box when you are dispensing them was actually solved years ago by a … Continue reading
Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance
Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned
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Posted in Book Reviews, Podcasts, Productivity
Tagged business managers, crenshaw, David Crenshaw, Goldratt, high performance, inefficiencies, management, multitasking, owner, People, Productivity
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Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance
Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5″ x 7″ format – very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done by … Continue reading