Some of the best quotations are sayings repeated in a culture until they are recognized by everyone. Today’s quotation is one of those. It is right there in the image . . . Questions to Ponder – What am I talking about, but not acting on? – What is the most productive thing I could

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One of the top resolutions each year is to be better organized or be more productive.  I wrote today’s recommendation with that thought in mind… About a year and half ago, I wrote about and recommended Evernote – the star technology in my personal strategies for personal productivity and effectiveness.  If you don’t know about

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There are just five more gifts in our 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas exercise that I have been unveiling one day at a time.  (The details and past tasks/gifts can be found here.) The 12 Days of Christmas song says that on the 5th day, the gift is five golden rings.  Few things in our

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On 12/12/12 I outlined a process I call The 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas.  If you have been following along you know that.  If not, check out the beginning (with links to the other days) to understand what we are doing and why. In the song there are ten lords a leaping.  As a leader

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On 12/12/12, I outlined a process for a Leadership 12 Days of Christmas process, where each day I would give you a small task that, when completed, would bring gifts to both you and your team. While I don’t know the value of 11 pipers piping, I believe the value of the gift you will

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In the training I did this week, the idea inside today’s short quotation came up several times.  It is an important idea, and yet one many people haven’t thought of or just don’t do (which is another reason to do it!). “It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which

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Why do you hire new employees? Ok, this seems like an obvious question, and no, it isn’t a trick. We hire people because we have assignments that need to be completed, sales to be made, products to be created, manufactured, shipped, and billed. We hire people to be productive; to get work done. Yet, that’s

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Did I actually write don’t set a goal? I did. Because the way most people set goals is a waste of time – and if that is how you do it, you would be better off not setting them at all. When you set a goal, the purpose is to achieve that goal, right? But

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Have you ever cleaned your garage?  When you started the project, the task was pretty well defined.  You could look at the garage and see what needed to be done.  But once you got started, two things happened.  First, you realized there were more necessary parts to the job than originally thought – the project

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There is a difference between what we can control, and what we can merely influence.  Sometimes we get these mixed up and this confusion causes many problems for leaders (and all of us as human beings too).  Today, I want to clarify one piece of this mix-up, a piece that starts with us personally, and

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