Productivity and success depend on many more factors than your solo smarts, drive, and persistence. One that’s often overlooked is the practical fit between you and the position in which you work: the better this fit, generally the better your results. To gauge this fit, we can look at four simple factors that describe your …
There are several reasons to keep your focus on delivering high-quality results. These include: High-quality work earns you a more respectable reputation, larger rewards, and greater freedom to do things your way. High-quality work rarely needs re-adjusting, revising, or reworking: once done, it generally stays done, boosting your productivity and leaving you more time for …
Dissatisfaction. Disappointment. Failure. Rejection. These are “facts of life” for people on Planet Earth. In fact, if you don’t experience some of these feelings, some of the time, you probably aren’t fully engaged in the exciting activities of living. So the goal should not be to avoid these devastating feelings, but rather to be sure …
As I’ve mentioned many times, your ability to work well with people is almost always vital to your productivity and success. And one of the most important of these “people skills” is interpersonal communication. Communicating well with other people allows you to develop and maintain a more collaborative, understanding, and supportive set of relationships. Ultimately, …
You’re probably aware that improving your productivity and success is dependent not only on your own efforts, but on your ability to work with and obtain top results from the efforts of others. That automatically brings up the issues of conflict. Conflict with others is a natural and inevitable result of being human. Since we’re …
How closely does your work situation match up with your dreams? For most of us, there’s a pretty significant gap between the reality we have at work and the reality we’d like to have. And that’s a problem, because when our working situation is not entirely satisfactory, we tend to lose motivation, turn in less …
It’s been a long row to hoe, what with some personal issues and the Covid-19 epidemic complicating what would ordinarily have been a difficult and complex revision of my book: “How to Organize Your Work and Your Life.” For example, I was flabbergasted to see how many pages in the earlier editions had been devoted …
As you become more productive and successful, you’ll have more and more opportunities to lead a team. Here are some suggestions to help you upgrade your performance as a team leader: Be Visible Although you’ll probably have administrative responsibilities as a team leader, holing up in your office too much of the time is …
I want to share with you some information that nearly everyone I’ve shown it to has immediately wanted to buy and put to use. It gives you a terrific chance to better control your economic future. This information is important to you now, as well as in the future, because the Covid-19 economic shut-down has …
It’s obvious that taking a new job requires you to find the best fit between you and a totally new position. What’s not so obvious to many of us is that the same kind of dynamic obtains in many other situations: getting a new client, starting a new business, rolling out a new product, tackling …
