There are two ways to live your life: you can drive it, or be driven. Today, I’m not talking about driving your life in a grand, spiritual sense, but in a micro-sense. You can never replace time. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. You can never get it back....
In this episode of Business Explained, I interview Michael Bungay Stanier, author of "The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More And Change The Way You Lead Forever." We discuss how to use some truly powerful coaching questions to boost your ability to help...
How do you get good at estimating how long tasks will take you? Get-it-Done Guy episode 377 on Estimate Tracking tells you how. Here are downloadable versions of the worksheets discussed in the episode.Estimate...
iOS 9 marks the first iOS release where my thought has been a pretty consistent "Well, I guess Apple's jumped the shark." Most of the reviews I've read of iOS 9 have apparently been written by sycophantic Apple fanboys who don't actually use their phones to do...
This article, originally printed in Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge gives several different techniques for helping get email under control. The article was one of the most-read articles at HBS, has been translated into more than 7 languages, and reprinted in Entrepreneur.com, and several magazines.
Are you lazy? How lazy? I think technology is giving us opportunities to take laziness to an entirely new level! I remember life before the Internet took over. Many things have changed. Now we can buy stuff online. We can watch movies and TV shows on our computer...
I just read an excellent article on XConomy by Wade Roush in which he asks the question: is technology destroying the very basis of our economy to offer employment? And assuming it is (as a thought experiment), what might we do to stop it? First, read the article....
The justification used for the incredible invasions of privacy on the part of the internet marketers of the world is that they want to serve us "targeted" ads. Targeted ads are ads that relate to what we're doing at the moment. Theoretically, if I'm having a...
I'm a huge fan of system dynamics and the understanding of complex systems that has come from the field that Jay Forrester invented. This is a superb article by the late Donella Meadows about the leverage points in complex systems, in ascending order of effectiveness....
Do you think it's rude to text/email during a meeting? Some say it's multitasking. An article I read celebrated "the skill of following along in person while simultaneously [doing other stuff]" Alas, that skill simply doesn't exist. Our brains are not wired to...