How to Organize Your Work & Your LifeGear Up for Success – Part 2
As I wrote last time, in a perfect world, you’d get all the success you deserve without any struggle. You’d do your thing. The world would reward you commensurately. Tomorrow you’d wake up and do more of the same. But it happens…
Gear Up for Success – Part 1
In a perfect world, you’d get all the success you deserve without any struggle. You’d do your thing. The world would reward you commensurately. Tomorrow you’d wake up and do more of the same. But it happens we’re in a world where…
Moving Up Within a Team
Unless you run your own business, you’ll generally be part of a team, and the team may itself be part of a larger organization. In situations like this, the ability to move up the ladder more quickly will be a major element…
Failure Is Nothing to Fear
Photo: By Soerfm - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Much has been written about overcoming fear of failure. This is good stuff, but it misses the really important point: there is often nothing about failure worth fearing. Sure, there are some failures…
You Don’t Think as Well as You Think You Do – Part 2
In a previous post, I explained that not only the Dunning-Kruger Effect, but a variety of cognitive biases keep you from thinking as well as you think you do. As I explained there, many of these biases are downright interesting. However, all of them hack…
An Effective Leadership Strategy
This series is not really about leadership, but there’s no doubt that leadership can find you, even when you’re not looking for it. Why? Simply because, as you become more productive and successful in your work and your life, the chances increase…
Feel More Comfortable with Uncertainty
If only the world were more black and white, with fewer shades of gray. If it were, then producing success and living well would be much simpler. Since the world happens to be extremely complex and heavily nuanced, however, it’s increasingly important…
Advance Your Career Onward and Upward
Much like a shark, if your career doesn’t keep moving forward, it will suffer and eventually die. But unlike a shark, your career may not move forward on its own. Unless you’re at the elite level in both talent and luck, you’ll…
Building Your Foundation for a More Satisfying Future
With all this extra productivity and success you are – or soon will be – enjoying (as a result of reading this blog and applying these ideas), it makes sense for you to start thinking about how you will make the best…
Money Isn’t Everything
I know this series is about productivity and success, and both of those underlie the perfectly understandable and broadly popular effort to increase income. But the truth is that money isn’t everything. There’s health and happiness. Morals and values are extremely important.…
Maximum Communication Effectiveness
As we’ve covered many times, working well with people is paramount in boosting your productivity and success. And that brings communication skills and effectiveness to the fore. At the risk of beating a dead horse, I’m offering here a set of guidelines…
Less Obvious Productivity Techniques
I’m guilty of it, too: focusing on tried-and-true productivity techniques that surprise no one and reflect a fair degree of common sense. But in group settings – teams, partnerships, cooperative relationships, even temporary collaborations – there are some helpful productivity techniques that…
