Night Owl or Early Bird?
Early birds - those of you who get up early - tend to be more proactive, more successful in business ... while the night owls ... that's me ... have…
Early birds - those of you who get up early - tend to be more proactive, more successful in business ... while the night owls ... that's me ... have…
Many of us accept that the only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. Our world is buffeted on all sides by change … kids grow up, technology abounds, friends move away, the list is endless.
Dan Heath at Fast Company describes a recent experience with subjects who were offered either chocolate chip cookies … or radishes. (If you’ve even been cut from a sports team, you’ll know how the radishes felt!). You can also see a short video there explaining the experiment. (more…)
Fast Company recently published a blog post called 10 Rules for Effective Conference Calls, which sounds about right … and I think you’ll agree that you’ve heard … or did … or thought … these same things yourself.
OK, now let’s move to slide 5. Can everyone see this slide?
(Slide with 12 rows of text appears. Jill proceeds to read all 12 lines of text.)
(Dead silence – everyone is on mute, reading mail, playing Solitaire or checking news, sports, and weather…)
How about this one? (more…)
Many of you have seen my earlier posts - the Stanford research or the NY Times summary about how multitasking fails to increase our productivity ... the very enemy it's…
Like we need more bad news in or about California ... but the Chief Executive organization's survey of Best and Worst States for Business 2010 finds the Golden State's golden…