Perspective – when everything is turned on its head
I was sharing a beer with Alex in a Melbourne bar, a while back. We had both worked overseas and struck up a friendship in Saudi Arabia. […]
What is your Leadership Style?
Leadership. It means many things to many people. What is seen as strength by some can be seen as weakness by others. I believe that effective leadership is all about Defining Purpose, Deciding Strategy, Defending Priorities and Delivering Results. There are many styles of leadership which people adopt to achieve their [...]
Productivity = the right task at right time for right reason
One of the foundational principles in all my Defending Priorities training programmes is ‘Do the right task at the right time for the right reason’. It is easy to say and sounds sensible but is difficult to achieve without the right information and context being available at the right time [...]
Linkedin Advanced Search being withdrawn from free accounts.
Linkedin is continually improving its platform. Sometimes this means that really useful and popular elements are withdrawn from free account holders and made available to Premium, paying customers only. Advanced Search is one such feature and, according to a few friends, it will be withdrawn from free accounts very soon. [...]
Opportunity. Every now and again a door opens and lets the future in #wp2p
Life has a habit of throwing things at us, doesn't it. Sometimes the journey is tougher than we would like it to be, things don't go to plan, we get let down, doors close. This is normal. This happens to everyone. Indeed, it is the most compelling reason to heed [...]
My Key takeaway from the IoD Surrey and SCCS event at Surrey University 7 Oct 2016
Cyber security policies, protocols and hard protection are all important but engaging staff in the ruthless, relentless reality of cyber risk is vital!
How to deliver your results easier in 2017
Whatever our roles are, one thing is for certain. Next year we will be driving and delivering a new set of challenging, stretching goals, projects, targets and ambitions for ourselves, our people and the businesses we are engaged in. In all probability our competitors will not be getting out of [...]
Time Tested Truth
Vita is brevis and tempus does fugit. Hippocrates, the ‘the father of medicine’, was right back in 400BC and is today. Virgil was right back in 29BC and is right today. None of us have time, none of us can save time, all of us slide through it at exactly the same [...]
When is the best time to wake up?
There is a lot of productivity literature around the subject of time and priority management, and you will find a fair share of it here on my blog. For now, though, just one question: Q: When is the best time to wake up? A: 10 minutes before the alarm goes [...]
Building Personal productivity and productive capacity #WP2P
People often ask me ‘Hey Rich, what’s your number one top tip for improving my productivity?’ They, of course, know that there is no such thing. But I still get asked it! The truth is that our personal productivity is determined by our personal productive capacity far more than it [...]