All posts tagged "work"
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Stop Multitasking. You’ll Get More Work Done.
There never seem to be enough hours in the day to get our work done. That’s why many of...
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Art of First Impressions
Book designer Chip Kidd knows all too well how often we judge things by first appearances. In this...
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Rewiring your Brain for Happiness + Success
We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and...
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How to run a Business with No Rules
What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate...
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When Two Tribes Meet
Yes, Leonardo da Vinci was both artist and inventor. True, Brian Cox was in that band before he gave it all up...
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The RIBS Test
A message succeeds when people remember it — when it sticks. This is crucial not only to get...
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Collaboration – a key to success?
Collaboration, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding: hype or essential business values? Collaboration is a big-time word. Everyone uses it. It’s a...
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Extraordinary Bosses
A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to...
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Time Wasters
A year ago my friend Russ Warner, CEO of ContentWatch, collaborated with me on the article Employees Really...
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Work and Meaning
What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn’t just money. But it’s not exactly joy...
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Rock and a Hard Place
Symbolic Modelling is an ‘outcome orientated’ methodology, but this does not mean we ignore problems. This article defines...
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The New Social Leadership
When driven by fear, human beings generally go to one of three places: They get stuck. They solve...
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The Busy Trap
If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of...
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The Right Way to Buy Happiness
Money can’t buy happiness. You hear this all the time, but is it true? I know we can...
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Overcome Burn Out
The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time Why is it that between 25% and 50% of...
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FeedForward Instead of Feedback
Providing feedback has long been considered to be an essential skill for leaders. As they strive to achieve...
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The Incomplete Leader
“Be a good leader. Be incomplete. Don’t be perfect, don’t even try….” There is evidence that the best...
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7 Steps to a Payrise or Promotion
Thinking about a pay rise? then it is probably overdue! Many women underestimate their value in the workforce...
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Self-Esteem in the Information Age
This essay appears in the Drucker Foundation’s collection of business essays, The Organisation of the Future (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997)....
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The Cost of Arrogant Leadership
Mac Davis sang, “Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way,” and whilst...
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How I plan out my week
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a ‘seat of my pants’ kind of guy in a...
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Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work
Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn’t a good place to do it....
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12 Tips for Outsourcing
Whether you’re a part of the largest multinational company or a single small-business owner, the fact of the...
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Drive Hard Bargains
If you want to negotiate a tough deal, make sure you are sitting on a hard chair. That’s...
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How to Become Indispensable
Are you indispensable? This is the question Seth Godin, bestselling author of the newly published Linchpin, poses to...
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Top 10 Secrets from Tony Robbins
For more than 25 years US-based motivational speaker and success coach Anthony Robbins has been passionately pursuing the...
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Emergency Tool Kit for Personal Sustainability and Resilience
Access to an Emergency Tool Kit, our own unique little box of tools, techniques and exercises that can...
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Is your Workplace Inspiring?
To find out take this quick test. Which best reflects your workplace? 6 positive comments made to every...
