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Techniques for Quicker Thinking
The more successful you become and the more authority you acquire, the more likely it becomes that you’ll face situations requiring very quick thinking. These…
Your Career and Personal Makeover
Incremental change is great. And in many situations, that’s the best you can manage.
But there comes a time when, for many of us, incremental change…
Setting More Balanced Goals
about naturally generates improvement in your level of productivity and success, goals work even better when you establish a balanced package of work and life…
Frank Discussion of Problems
Lately I’ve been thinking about the failures in NASA’s 30-year-long Space Shuttle program (1981-2011). There were many, but of course the two biggest were the…
Boost Your Satisfaction at Work
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…
Your Personal Inventory
You wouldn’t attempt a do-it-yourself project without the proper tools, and you wouldn’t know if you had the proper tools unless you took an inventory…
How to Increase Your Influence
As I have said before, unless you’re working in a cave somewhere, cut off from the internet and other means of communication, your productivity and…
Identifying and Resolving Conflicts
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…
Emphasize the Positive
Behavior change is nearly always difficult to manage. Our old habits and behaviors tend to linger well past their usefulness, and new ones are notoriously…
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Accept More Skepticism
You’d think it would be an enviable position, but I know a Stanford MBA who doesn’t like being the smartest person in the room. “Nobody…
The Power of Subconscious Processing
When facing an important decision, it’s a fairly common piece of advice to “sleep on it.” The operative idea is this: in many situations, you…