According to a recent study by McKinsey Global Institute, the average American worker spends 28% of the workweek reading and answering email. I don’t know who McKinsey surveyed for this statistic. Most of the people I know feel like they spend...
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Star Wars fans of all ages will head into theaters in the coming days to watch Star Wars: Rogue One. I have many favorite moments from this franchise, one of which is Yoda’s advice as he is training an exasperated Luke Skywalker. He tells him to...
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This week Americans enjoyed a four-day workweek thanks to Labor Day. While I appreciated the long weekend, I must confess I didn't give much thought to the significance of the holiday. In case you too need a refresher, Labor Day—established...
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While productivity and momentum are common themes in this blog, it's also important to note that occasionally the most efficient thing to do is nothing at all. I'm not talking about spending a weekend binging on reality television over a bag of...
[...]Last week, one of my clients told me what he enjoyed most from our coaching sessions: nothing. It caught me off guard until he explained that as a managing partner of a busy law firm, he almost never gets the opportunity to stop working for an hour...
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Somewhere in Hollywood, a screenwriter is writing that scene in which the cheating husband gets caught with his pants down and blurts out the classic line, “Honey, wait… it’s not what you think.” And yet, for all its popularity, the cliché...
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When it comes to effective business development, one of the most important disciplines is consistency. You have to consistently maintain a sharp focus and a sharper appetite.
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Our overwhelmingly busy lives require that we make difficult decisions when it comes to prioritizing our time. There's no better evidence of this than our email inbox.
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As if you weren't already busy enough, along come the holidays, and suddenly you must add another list of to-dos to your existing to-do list. Like you, I work hard to stay productive and yet I often have the experience that I'm unable to keep up...
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