Good priority management is all about being cristal clear on our purpose, being committed to our goals, knowing what commitments are already in our trusted inventory of current commitments (much more than a to-do list), and having a process to manage this with ease on a day-to-day basis. In the same [...]
As someone with a reputation in time and priority management you would expect me to have some idea of how many seconds there are in a day (86,400 since you asked). It is not a big stretch to have an idea of how long a million seconds is. A million [...]
I have been around a lot of talk this week on ‘Leadership’ and ‘Management’. I suppose it is to be expected, given that I have been running various training sessions and forums over the week, ranging from a ‘Strategy in Action’ workshop that I ran for one client through to a ‘Welding [...]
One of the most misused digital tools outside email (of which there are numerous references in this blog) is Microsoft PowerPoint. A little like alcohol, used sensitively, it can enhance any occasion; used recklessly it will wreck any occasion! A client has just mailed me a link to this New York [...]
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – John Dryden Improved self-management involves changing our behaviours. Often this means breaking old habits that we ‘know’ do not serve us well. The ruthless reality, though, is that our habits (both good and bad), exert a vice-like grip [...]
I have been using Spinvox memo service on my smart phones and BlackBerry for years when on the run between meetings. It turns my spoken word into an email I can process when I get back to my laptop. I have found it more productive than fiddling with a stylus or punching out words [...]
I was speaking with one of my sons yesterday. He is in his final year at University reading Philosophy. We were discussing different approaches we can use to help us weld our purpose to our daily priorities to help us reach our goals. Part of our conversation skirted my own early morning practice [...]
Almost everybody has at least one boss. And the trend is for knowledge workers to have an increasing number of bosses, an increasing number of people on whose approval and appraisal they depend. […]
What do you do in bed in the morning in that half dream consciousness between awakening and planting your feet on the floor to step again into the reality of your world? […]
I have just put the phone down on a guy working with a client firm who did one of my Goal Control programmes a year ago on the 2nd May – he is a real paradigm shifter! ‘Hey Richard,’ he said, ‘you gave me an extra 6 weeks work over [...]
