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Given the avalanche of email we receive each year — 121 messages per day, on average — it’s no wonder that we have become somewhat desensitized to its impact on our professional brand.

The meetings on your calendar represent your portfolio of ‘time investments." Adopt a few simple strategies to ensure that you are maximizing your time ROI.

Do you remember the key ideas from the last PowerPoint presentation you sat through? Probably not. PowerPoint was intended to facilitate the communication of ideas. Ironically, it often does just the opposite.

Set yourself up for success in the new year by investing a few minutes now to bring out your personal best.

Most of us are heading into the holiday slowdown and if you’re like me, your head is already spinning with wildly optimistic visions of what you can accomplish during the break…

In one of my favorite commercials, a security person stands idly by while a bank robbery occurs. In response to the people waiting for him to take action, he explains, “I’m a security monitor, not a security guard. I only tell you when there’s a robbery.” The tagline is, “Why monitor a problem if you’re not going to fix it?”

When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results, when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.”

In the ideal meeting, all attendees participate, contributing diverse points of view and thinking together to reach new insights. But few meetings live up to this ideal, in large part because not everyone is able to effectively contribute.