Benjamin Franklin once said that nothing is certain except death and taxes. We might agree with him on paper, but uncertainty still scares us, and in the last three years there’s been more than enough of it to go around. …
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When I remember new hire orientations of jobs past, I think of watching cheesy, outdated videos, completing a marathon of poorly photocopied forms, and being escorted to an empty cubicle three hours before the end of the business day, left …
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John Jantsch is one of the top strategic thinkers in business today. The author of the Duct Tape Marketing blog, John mostly focuses on marketing the small business, but I find myself applying his lessons to leadership in the …
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Not all projects are created equal. There will be some that will make your career, and others you’d rather just bury deep in the bowels of your organization’s data servers, never to be seen or heard from again. Recognize the …
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Tony Schwartz’s blog post on Harvard Business Review, Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything, just appeared in my Google Reader. The post is based on the advice Tony extols in his new book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, …
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I recently enjoyed reading Marcus Buckingham’s book, Find Your Strongest Life. The book explores some of the innate differences men and women experience working in the business world. Women at Work Vs. Men at Work According to the book, when …
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Here’s a paradox for you. Working hard can actually decrease your productivity. You may have heard that multi-tasking doesn’t work. Well whether or not you personally find that to be true, it is a neurological fact that our brains do …
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