Are you working on the right things?
There were once a few tree cutters cutting trees down in a certain forest when one of them decided to climb atop a tree to check on the overall progress. As he looked around...
Category: Process & Approach
Efficiency by leap-frogging
You spend time figuring out how to get things done faster… you try better processes… your experience helps you get your job done using fewer steps, lesser thought. What once took you an hour...
What type of a person are you?
When Phileas Fogg took on the challenge to go around the world in 80 days, he believed that he could! What others felt had little influence on what he thought was possible! It can’t...
You are human… not a nut!
A team is a success machine and each of us, a unique, important component in it…. It is us, that makes that machine. The machine works when all of us: understand our function, stay...
The ten points that make your meetings effective
A very successful man when asked about the secret to his success answered, “I don’t get into meetings”. Meetings are important, in that the best communication happens when you sit face to face. There...
Maximize the use of your time
You may be doing all the right things. You may be doing all things right. You may be working hard and you may be wasting very little time…. The one question that remains to...
You are wasting your time
If you are spending a minute more than you have to on things that don’t add up, you are wasting your time! Let’s get one thing out of the way as we talk about...
Are you talking too much?
When you want to say something, ask yourself these two questions: 1. What happens if I don’t say this? 2. What happens if I say this? Most times we may end up deciding on...
Good to be around a demanding person
Face it… You would much rather get the work assigned to you by that unreasonable bully, that will not think twice before branding you incompetent, than that assigned to you, by that patient loving...
Time is non-refundable
A few years back, I worked with a man that would every now and then get up from his chair in meetings, walk up to the one that added little value but took up...
