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Overloaded And Overwhelmed? Four Things You Can Control When Your Workload Is Out Of Control
Our research indicates a terrifying 43% of knowledge workers do not get their most important work done during the workday. And that number is growing at a rapid pace. In his recent book, Dying for a Paycheck, Stanford professor Jeffrey…
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Decision-Proof Your Organization
Decision-Proof Your Organization
Decision-proof your organization through shared context and psychological safety.
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To Meet Or Email -- That Is The Question
It’s no wonder that they are selling printed T-shirts with the slogan, “I just survived a meeting that should have been an email.” It’s a dreadfully common occurrence. A client Diane recently shared this anecdote: She was…
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Procrastination: Why It's So Hard To Break The Habit
Anyone who has a teenager in the house is familiar with the perils of procrastination. “I’ll do it later” is a common refrain in both kitchens and cubicles across the globe. Many of us have self-recriminations about our tendency…
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Invest 20 Minutes To Reclaim 10% Of Your Team's Time
Ten percent may not sound like much, but think of it this way: if you have a team of 10 people and each person could reclaim four hours a week of wasted time, you’d collectively have an extra 40 hours per week—roughly the…
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3 Decision-Making Wrongs And How To Make Them Right
Organizations are decision making machines. Their performance, then, depends on the quality of those decisions, an assertion that has been validated through numerous research studies. Sometimes, it’s hard to know if a decision…
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Five Things Not To Do When Launching A Project
Redundant, parallel projects being run in separate departments. Endless delays and missed deadlines because of day-to-day priorities. Poorly run meetings where everyone has lost the plot. Failing to deliver on the real…
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Three Solutions To Three Age Old Meeting Problems
A longitudinal study published by Harvard Business Review found that CEOs spend 72% of their time in meetings. While top executives’ calendars may be an extreme version of the problem, most leaders are overwhelmed. They perpetually…
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Dam, Flow Or Flood: How Does Information Travel In Your Organization?
In agile, complex, collaborative organizations, there is a direct connection between the quality of information flow and the quality of results. Shared context (or shared consciousness as described in the great book Team…
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How Time Crunches Kill Curiosity
Time is our least renewable resource. While “time management” sounds like a nice-to-have, it’s actually essential to producing innovation. There is a direct connection between the amount of time employees have to reflect,…
