This week, I led a teleseminar called The Productive Leader (you can learn more and order a recording of it here) .  As I said at the start of the call, it doesn’t seem to matter what the topic of the training or conversation, time management always comes up.  People want to manage their time

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It is an awesome time of year, especially if you are a basketball fan. First come the Conference Tournaments and then the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournaments. You don’t even have to be a fan to end up watching a game or two. And if you are a fan, be careful that your productivity doesn’t

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By Maxwell Maltz Make any list of the classics, and by definition the list will include older books. Yet ask most people what they plan to read and they talk about the new releases, the stuff others are talking about currently. This book is a classic, and it belongs on your reading list – whether

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Normally this weekly feature has an attributed quotation.  Today will be the same, but I won’t tell you who created it, until the bottom.   Call it a bit of a quiz.  Before you scroll to the bottom and find out, why not guess? “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority;

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Businesses take inventories regularly to re-calibrate, confirm, and set themselves up for a successful future. Based on your business model and procedures, the time(s) when you take these measurements may change.  At certain times of the year (like the impending changing of the seasons), people often reflect and “take stock” (a clear reference to inventory) of

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Here’s a safe bet. If you are reading these words, you’ve been in a meeting this week. Here’s a nearly-as-safe bet. You’ve been to at least one meeting recently when you were disengaged, bored, or wished you could have been at your desk getting some “real work” done. While this article can’t (immediately anyway) reduce

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By Steven Snyder We can all learn from mistakes – but it doesn’t always come automatically.  And as a leader, there are often pressures (even if mostly internal or imaginary) to not share mistakes, not show challenges – and as the commercial used to say – “never let them see you sweat.” Steven Snyder turns

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David Ogilvy is perhaps the most famous advertising executive of all time. His book, Ogilvy on Advertising, is a classic, and many of his ads have been often copied. Today’s quotation from him tells us his genius went far beyond writing an advertisement (and perhaps gives a big clue as to why he was so

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Have you ever heard the old quotation, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears”?  It has a Zen-like quality to it, and inside those few words is the answer to the question posed in the title. The best time to coach is when the student is ready.  At that moment of readiness, we are

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Pinterest, in case you haven’t heard, is one of the newer very popular social media tools.  It is a site focused on collecting and sharing images.  When users find an image them like, they “pin” it to a board on their profile, making those selections available for the world to see. While this piece mentions

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