It seems everyone complains about distractions at work these days so you may believe your inability tofocus is just like everyone else’s. Except it’s not. Your boss has mentioned more than once that you need to get your constant procrastination …
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Change in our business environment happens very quickly these days. To be successful in your career years and decades ago, it was more or less enough to learn a skill or process and then simply repeat it over and over. …
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Fess up. You’ve already blown a couple of New Year’s resolutions, haven’t you? Perhaps it was the one about eating healthy. (Who can resist the double chocolate chip cookies someone brought to the break room?) Or, maybe it was your …
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Ask one hundred people about their number one email pet peeve, and you’ll see a sizeable percentage report long emails. Long emails simply aren’t received well. They either don’t get read, or they are skimmed and the message is misunderstood. …
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We all know that part of being a boss is having difficult conversations. But while a perfect boss will never shy away from tackling difficult or awkward topics head-on, the reality is that no boss is perfect – because they’re …
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In a previous post, Marshall Goldsmith discussed his 34 years of coaching more than 100 top CEOs around the world. Recently named the winner of the 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker, Goldsmith spoke with …
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Here at the QuickBase Blog, many of us manage large projects on a regular basis. No doubt this is one of the more complex and stressful aspects of our jobs, so I’ve asked some of the best PMs I know …
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