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If two people in the organization can do the same task, who should do it? The one with more free time? The one with more seniority? The ...

6 months into quarantine and the work from home life, I finally wore a tie. To my own home office.  There were no big meetings or presen...

He who is faithful in small things will be faithful in much, the ancient text reads. In other words, be excellent in the small things if...

Ask yourself, where do I keep things like this? If you can be consistent in answering that question, you'll have a better chance of getti...

Most professionals don't have a problem missing meetings. We don't miss meetings because it's made it onto our calendars so nothing else ...

Stop using your email inbox as a task management tool. There are only three actions you can take with email: Trash it – never a bad plan...

The difference between a task management system and a mess is where you keep your lists.  A series of sticky notes crumpled in the botto...

One of Peter Drucker’s tools when coaching executives is to have them – or an assistant – record everything they do in 5 minute increment...

Work is, at its core, a series of tasks. Keeping track of, prioritizing, accomplishing, and reporting on those tasks is a central challen...

One tip to eliminate procrastination is to avoid large blocks of empty time in your calendar.  A three or four-hour block of empty time ...

The quickest way to accomplish more is to schedule your priorities. Productivity is primary an activity in subtraction, not addition, so...

The struggle between work and family many of us feel is partly due to the fact that we rigorously schedule and structure our work lives, ...

Most of us are knowledge workers, meaning our value to the organization is not the material we produce with our hands, but the quality of...

If you are struggling to gain traction in your projects with your team, begin asking this question: who does what by when? Each meeting,...

Mark Twain probably didn't say that the man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't, but it's still true.  So here's a ...

The reason some struggle to leave work on time is that we use the 'work-being-done' as the measure. But the work is never done. So if the...

A while back I started paying attention to the wisdom that you shouldn't use your cell phone as an alarm clock. The underlying logic is t...

"Some of my best friends have been dead for hundreds of years." I was in college when I heard a professor say this. It was a throwaway li...

One of the features of the COVID-19 quarantine is the upending of the long-held notion of being-at-the-office-to-get-work-done. Productiv...

A few thoughts on working from home 1. Take and shower and get dressed before beginning your work day. Part of the allure of working from...