Time Management for Dummies. Are you working Smart or Dumb?
I’m no statistician, nor am I a qualified researcher, but I am going to put my neck on the line and make what I could call a well informed guess at how you spend your working week. It’s well informed...
View ArticleWhy doing the Wrong Thing righter makes it wronger
A few years ago (in the Dark Ages before sat nav) I found myself in the centre of Leeds driving alone at night, on the way to a training event. It was dark, raining heavily, past 11 pm. I’d been...
View ArticleNow I really do know how lazy I am!
It’s something I’ve always suspected, but now I know it for certain. This could be me next time around I am idle. In the last 4 weeks I have been working flat out, delivering training sessions back to...
View ArticleHow to unlearn something you’re great at.
It’s hard being me, at times. I expect it’s the same for you (being you, that is). One of my biggest frustrations is that there are certain things I do again and again which I know from bitter...
View ArticleWhy were you born? And what if you haven’t worked that out yet?
“The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Thank you Mark Twain, that has to be the best quote I have heard this year. Looking back at my...
View ArticlePing! Another email to read? Think again!
I meet enough frazzled business people to know that email and unproductive meetings are the two biggest time wasters in the workplace. Of the two, email is easily the most damaging, because it is the...
View ArticleNow I really do know how lazy I am!
It’s something I’ve always suspected, but now I know it for certain. I am idle. In the last 4 weeks I have been working flat out, delivering training sessions back to back across 8 different topics....
View ArticlePing! Another email to read? Think again!
I meet enough frazzled business people to know that email and unproductive meetings are the two biggest time wasters in the workplace. Of the two, email is easily the most damaging, because it is the...
View ArticleThe Top Three Dysfunctions of a Meeting
For the last 20 years or so I have been unwittingly researching corporate dysfunctionality through my work in Leadership Development around the world. Over that time, from conversations with thousands...
View ArticleNow I really do know how lazy I am!
It’s something I’ve always suspected, but now I know it for certain. I am idle. In the last 4 weeks I have been working flat out, delivering training sessions back to back across 8 different topics....
View ArticlePing! Another email to read? Think again!
I meet enough frazzled business people to know that email and unproductive meetings are the two biggest time wasters in the workplace. Of the two, email is easily the most damaging, because it is the...
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