Nearly meeting is a colossal waste of time and resources, and – most destructively – it turns us off the real potential of really meeting. To avoid nearly meeting and make an escape or a change when you find yourself…
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Know Your Enemy: How to Spot a Nearly Meeting
Tagged with: David Pearl, effectiveness, meetings, nearly meeting, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Everything
Posted in Everything
The Real Tragedy of Nearly Meeting
In Will There Be Donuts?, David Pearl explains the concept of nearly meeting (p22): Nearly meeting is any meeting where the participants fail to get real value out of their coming together. They are the ones which offer a poor return…
Tagged with: David Pearl, effectiveness, efficiency, meetings, nearly meeting, schedules, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Management
Posted in Management
Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) Better
“Better” is what it’s all about, ultimately: doing your job more effectively, so you can make the biggest possible positive impact.
Tagged with: better, clarity, content, effectiveness, focus, impact, productivity, storytelling
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) Faster
The same approach applies to most tasks in the workplace: you can dawdle and let a task take as long as you want to give/waste, to fill your day, or you can blast through it in the shortest time possible.
Tagged with: effectiveness, faster, impact, John Wooden, productivity
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) More
You should request, look for, and create more opportunities and projects. If you’re truly committed, then to do more you’re going to need to work more as well: get in early, stay late, pop in on weekends, work from home.
Tagged with: effectiveness, hobbies, impact, more, practice, productivity, skills, volunteering
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Increase your Effectiveness with these Three Strategies
“How can I be more effective?” and “How can I get better at X?” are questions I get asked from time-to-time. I’ve at least somewhat addressed the first question before, and now it’s time to visit the second. Let’s say you want…
Tagged with: better, effectiveness, faster, impact, more, productivity, strategies
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Maximize Your Impact: Spin the Plates
[This post is part of a series on increasing your effective productivity. The introductory post is My Strategies for Maximizing Impact] In the first post of this series, I said that my strategies can be captured as: Work on the things that…
Tagged with: effectiveness, impact, multitasking, plate spinning, project management, projects, strategies, time management
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
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