I want you to think of a time when something was unclear to you. Maybe you were unclear about your future. Maybe you were unclear about your role in your company or on a project. Or maybe you were unclear on your goals or your purpose.  I’m pretty confident that when you are unclear, there’s no

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Let’s start with a question: Would your organization or team be more effective, productive and successful if you were more focused? Now how about you?Would you be more effective, productive and successful if you were more focused?I think I know the answer, and I think you do too.So in this video, we are going to talk about

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Productivity and decision making are two topics often talked about in leadership development circles – both are important skills for leaders to build. But it is less frequent that they are placed together. This article is about both ideas put together. Specifically, let’s explore the productivity decisions we can make the will make a big

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How long is a “work week?” Which days do you work? Who determines that? If you were asked to work ten hours a day, six days a week, would you consider that excessive? Until a good way through the 20th century, that was the norm. Then we began working Monday to Friday, either 8 to

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You may never have thought of the idea of being process-based. Maybe you’ve never even heard of it. And so before I can tell you why I think being process-based is a good idea, let’s talk about what it actually means. Process-based is a way of thinking where we think about any task as a series

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One of the first pieces of advice you likely received when you became a leader was that you need to learn to delegate. This well-meaning advice acknowledges that as a leader you will have more to do than ever, and that handing some of those tasks to others is a good and productive strategy. That

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“The biggest threat to organizations is the quiet quitting trend…” If you’ve read this headline, or others like it, you probably were either mildly intrigued or completely outraged.Your response says as much about your attitude to your work as anything ever will. Every once in a while, the business press gets hold of an idea

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How much time do you spend proving to others that you’re working when you’re not in the office? This sounds silly, but my long-time colleague, Jessica Stillman wrote an article for INC.com recently that gave a name to that behavior: Productivity Theater. Productivity Theater is engaging in behaviors that aren’t terribly productive but give the

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