Productivity
The Power of Being Blunt
Bluntness is information-centric communication. Sharing only the feedback without the social wrapping is high value communication. Lots of content packed into a short space of time. However delivered...
Productivity
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Productivity
Valuing Your Time
It does’t matter how much something costs you to do, you need to consider the value of your time when making your decision to participate. When considering going to a course, instead of simply...
Productivity
Getting Out From Under the Bottomless Todo List
Sometimes life can become rather overwhelming. The todo list can seem to stretch for miles with no apparent way to the bottom of it. The top priority items calling for your attention seem to battle...
LifeProductivity
Be Emotional, Don't be Dramatic
Almost every project I have worked on needs more emotion. We're a culture deprived of healthy emotional expression and connection. Much of what we produce is flat and devoid of true passion and...
CoachingProductivity
Don't Get Too Far Ahead of the Problem
It's easy to jump right to solutions when we intuitively experience a problem. The challenge is that it's easier and more effective long term to accurately describe the problem first before...
Productivity
Have a Profound Team: Match Your Mental Presence to your Physical Presence
To do great work on a team every member of that team must be committed to being truly present. When you are physically together, the more that that physical togetherness can equate to emotional and...
Productivity
Choose to be Energetic
On the way home from a big fencing tournament last year, one of my students who was riding shotgun, feeling suitably exhausted, turned to me and asked "How are you so awake still? How do you have so...
Productivity
Resolving to Resolve this New Year's
The thing I hate about New Year's resolutions is that they only come once per year. If you set some meaningful change for your life and fall off the wagon by February it takes an entire year before...
Productivity
Striking While the Iron is Hot
People often ask me how I have accomplished so many different things in my life. There are of course many different aspects, disciplines, and qualities that I believe help me do this but one of them...
Productivity
Setting Things Into Motion
I wrote recently about striking while the iron is hot. Today I want to consider a related idea for turning inspiration into fruit: Setting things into motion. Another key to getting many creative...