“Better” is what it’s all about, ultimately: doing your job more effectively, so you can make the biggest possible positive impact.
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Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) Better
Tagged with: better, clarity, content, effectiveness, focus, impact, productivity, storytelling
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
It’s Hard to Focus When You’re Exhausted
I’ve done a lot of travel lately: Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, England, Ukraine, Austria, Croatia, and now South Africa in just the last few weeks. In those places, I’ve had many long, detailed meetings with prospects, customers, and colleagues. During those…
Tagged with: attention, conferences, exhaustion, focus, HQers, meetings, Mind Wide Open, Steven Johnson, travel
Posted in Everything, Marketing
Posted in Everything, Marketing
Maximize Your Impact: Work on Things That Matter Most
You can exhaust yourself just keeping up with your inbox, and you won’t make a big difference. [This post is part of a series on increasing your effective productivity. The introductory post is My Strategies for Maximizing Impact] In the first…
Of politics, leadership, and marketing
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m busy reading Lessons from the Top, by Gavin Esler. I’m quite enjoying it so far, having marked several passages for later reference, and have observed several links to other “things”. For instance,…
Tagged with: 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, focus, leadership, lessons, politics
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
“A Golden Rule of Leadership”, or “It’s not as hard as you might think”
The truth is there is no mystique, there is no magic: every single one of us has the potential to be a leader, and it’s not as hard as you might think. Sometimes I fear that we’ve built such an…
Tagged with: focus, leadership, lessons, objectives, rules, strategy, tactics
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
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