Planning your summer vacation? It's Memorial Day Weekend and the unofficial start of summer. What are your plans? Have you decided where you are going to spend those days or weeks off? Maybe you've elected to take every Friday off between now and Labor Day so you can get long weekends in and do a …
Time Management
Make this years goal setting process easy
Mondays' have always been my day. I loved them. It was time to put my plan into action. That plan was different every week, but it was the same. It always revolved around sales, accounts, territories, products, management, building the team, internal and external meetings, traveling, putting …
Leadership Tip: Delegate problem solving
You are the leader, it is your problem, no one else's, right? Leadership involves calculating return on investment. Sometimes that means you take the 2nd best solution to a problem, not the first. Why would you do that? Stop being the Chief Problem Solver in your organization. Let the team …
Common theme to time management
The morning to-do list! You’ve re-written it four times this week, and its only Wednesday. You’ve carried over some of these tasks for days on end, and they haven’t been completed. There is only so much time in a day, and you are struggling to get everything done. We look at the calendar, and we are …
Improve your day with these 3 E’s
Phew, just got to the office in the nick of time. Ugh, you see the pile of work stacked in your inbox. You open your email system and you have tons of unread messages. You are behind, and you can’t even think straight and it’s just 8:05. Off you go, down to get that first cup of coffee. As you …
How to benefit, by postponing pleasure
Are you the type that wants it NOW? Can't wait for Christmas morning, so you open up just "one" on Christmas Eve? Maybe you're a live for the moment, or only live once type of person. Why delay gratification? Most of us have heard about the study by Stanford Professor, Walter Mischel. He …
Billionaires Share this One Thing in Common
67% of today’s billionaires have earned their first billion in one generation! Of the current Forbes 400 list, 228 of them started either poor or middle class. They didn't inherit businesses or anyone else's fortune. (Forbes) When people ask if the American Dream is still possible - I …
Time Saving Tips! – Guaranteed
You are at the airport, and you pull out your phone to check and see if anything important is in your email. You’re standing in a long-line at the Grocery store and you review your mail really quick. Sitting in a movie theatre before the show starts, you pull out your phone and you check again. You …
Tips: Are you building fires? or putting them out?
So, it is the end of a very busy day. You are tired. You have moved from item to item on your task list all day long. Things are being crossed off that long list. You lay your head down on that wonderful pillow and a thought goes through your head: “Why am I so exhausted, without being any …
Tips: Goal Setting & Focus
In a recent conversation with one of my principals, he was talking about an operational principle on the factory floor called the "Glass Wall". The wall is a realistic wall, and usually made out of plexiglass so you can see right through it. In this wall, he can visualize the process and …