“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
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
How I made an impact
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…
Tagged with: Dan Deeth, gap analysis, Global Internet Phenomena, impact, Internet, Lee Brooks, Netflix, Sandvine
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
Maximize Your Impact: Get the Best Return on Energy
[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: impact, optimization, return on energy, scalability, strategies, think big, time management, vision
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management
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…
My Strategies for Maximizing Impact
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…
Tagged with: impact, productivity, strategies, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
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