Time Management

What does red tape cost your business? Think about the time wasted by cumbersome review processes. Individuals with new ideas first have to build a case for their recommendation, preparing a written proposal or presentation for management to review. Then, they must set up a meeting, often involving multiple individuals whose travel schedules have to be coordinated, which may take days or weeks. (Of course, before the meeting takes place we have to define if there are any internal politics or personal preferences, and anticipate potential objections.) And then the meeting takes place. When all is said and done, the decision ends up being made in 20 minutes by people vaguely familiar with the situation. The person making the recommendation    Read more…

Ever feel like you’re living life at warp speed? If you do, you’re not alone. There are many of us who feel like we’re doing more than ever before but failing to enjoy the fruits of our labor.  What’s the rush? We’re depriving ourselves of sleep to buy a few extra minutes, communicating in sound bites and bullet points, while riffling through volumes of information like never before. (Take a breath.) We exploit every millisecond in order to fit an additional activity into our day and then manage it all by multitasking like world-class jugglers. In the process, we have become a society with the attention span of a gnat. Please remind me again…why are we doing this? Oh yes,    Read more…

Where Did the Time Go?

“My pancakes. I can’t believe they’re cold!” “Hey, idiot, watch where you’re going. You cut me off.” “If those kids don’t turn down the music, I’m going to let them have it!” “I can’t believe I’m waiting at home again for the repairman.” Do you get soooooooo sidetracked by minutiae that you don’t have the time or the energy to manage the priorities in your life? If so, you’re probably working too hard for the wrong reasons. Are Your Priorities Hijacked by Trivia? It’s very common today to let other people hijack your time with their priorities. The end result is that you work harder and harder each year only to find you’re running on a treadmill to nowhere, going miles    Read more…