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If you’re going to be successful in your career, you need to be exceptional at selling. Not necessarily products and services, but, perhaps more importantly, your ideas, your points of view and yourself. But how persuasive you are depends on
Today we’re up to strategy #17 in our ongoing video series on getting stuff done, tools to make leaders more productive in the limited time we seem to have. Today’s tip is to block your schedule. Block your schedule Blocking
Normally, persistence and tenacity are good characteristics in a leader. But sometimes they can actually be a weakness. There are situations when it is more important for leaders to observe and listen, and if the current path is not taking
Earlier in this series on productivity tools for leaders, I offered a few ideas on overcoming procrastination. Specifically, in strategies #7, #8 and #9, I discussed “going public”, using the Zeigarnik Effect, and schedule unappealing tasks 25-minute blocks. Today, I
A few years ago I did a series of three posts on the blog about specific actions you could take to build a stronger working relationship with your manager. Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s a perennial subject that comes up repeatedly
Could you be a human bottleneck? If others have stopped their work because they are waiting for information or action from you, then the answer is “yes”. When activities need to be funnelled through a single individual so that they