“Better” is what it’s all about, ultimately: doing your job more effectively, so you can make the biggest possible positive impact.
“Better” is what it’s all about, ultimately: doing your job more effectively, so you can make the biggest possible positive impact.
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.
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.
“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…
I turned and asked, “What do you think I can work on that will truly make an impact?” In the summer of 2008, I was sharing a cab in Las Vegas with one of our Sales VPs, as we both…
[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…
[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…
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…
I’ve had a lot of conversations lately about productivity. The conversations have started in a few different ways (e.g., “How can we get the biggest return on marketing?”, “I’m having trouble deciding what to work on.”, “I have too much on…