How can we get what we want? The book Simpleology contains five laws to help you get what you want:
January 14 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, performance, Productivity, success | 24 comments»
Most people recognize a champion only when he steps up the podium, but he actually has become a champion far before it. In fact, he has become a champion years before that glorious moment. Why? Because to reach that moment, first and foremost he has to become a champion in his daily life. He has to train hard for years, control his diet, and deny a lot of pleasures… » Continue
September 4 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, attitude, Lifestyle, performance, success | 4 comments»
Ever gone into a performance review, had to deliver a speech or make a sales pitch and become more concerned about what the reviewer was going to say or write than what was in the presentation? It can be like going to the dentist for a root canal. This is a tough area, but it can be even more difficult for whoever is doing the evaluation.
A badly… » Continue
April 27 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: Communication, evaluation, Management, performance, presentation, review | 11 comments»
Maybe this sounds a silly question, but it’s not. We live in a business society dominated by demands for ever greater performance. Yet until we’re clear what performance is, focusing on it will produce only confusion and frustration.
“Simple,” some people say. “Performance is getting the job done. Producing the result that you aimed at. Nothing else matters. There are no prizes for coming second.”
Of course, there are such prizes, but… » Continue
March 12 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: performance, Productivity, result | no comments»
Your best friend loves playing baseball. He’s good at it and looks likely to make it to near-professional level one day. You’re a total klutz at the game. You don’t enjoy it, but you keep trying because your friend is so keen. He does his best to help you, but however hard you try, you don’t get much better.
What should you do?
About 99.9% of people will tell you to… » Continue
January 22 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, career, motivation, performance, talent | 2 comments»
Everyone would like to think a little faster or more clearly. Sometimes we forget to take care of our brain. Ririan offers 22 tips for improving your brain performance.
It’s simple, your brain is at the center of everything you do, all you feel and think, and every nuance of how you relate to people. It’s both the supercomputer that runs your complex life and the tender organ that houses your… » Continue
January 16 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: brain, health, performance, Productivity | 2 comments»
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. - Glenn Turner
We all worry. The same wonderful tools our brain uses to imagine new innovations and solve complex problems, also has a habit of looking for trouble - even when it may not exist.
Mid-terms, budget overruns, bug counts, first dates, performance anxiety - worry likes to stick its nose into every… » Continue
December 5 2006 | By Tony | Tagged: anxiety, performance, strategy, worry | 11 comments»
I have two topics this week: the present-day obsession with clinging grimly to the status quo, when we have rarely needed change and entrepreneurial flair so much; and the obnoxious jerks whose presence in leadership positions disfigures too many organizations. These topics are linked by a recurring theme: the way that Hamburger Management—that dismal system of cutting corners, hounding people to reach crazy targets, and driving down every cost except… » Continue
November 20 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, behavior, bestpractices, business, business-fundamentalism, businesslife, competition, creativity, effectiveness, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Hamburger-Management, innovation, leadership, Management, motivation, organization, performance, respect, slow-leadership, work, work/life-balance | 1 comment»
Henry at Binary Dollar did an article on his view to ace a performance review. Some of the points are pretty positive:
Like Use numbers is a good tip - be specific and measurable on your performance - manager love numbers and metrics.
For some other tips:
November 15 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: performance, review | 3 comments»
I’ve been thinking and writing quite a lot this week about Hamburger Management: the type of management approach that is based on always doing whatever is quickest, simplest and (above all) cheapest. Hamburger Managers provide the kind of leadership that is best described as: “Never mind the quality, look how fast it goes and how cheap it is.” Sadly, this approach is being forced on a great many otherwise perfectly… » Continue
October 23 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: attitude, behavior, bestpractices, business-ethics, civilization, civilized-work, competition, decision-making, effectiveness, empowerment, engagement, expectations, guideline, Hamburger-Management, innovation, integrity, leadership, lifebalance, Management, meetings, organization, performance, priorities, prioritization, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, success, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance | 4 comments»
When you write an article on a topic, it’s traditional to start with the problem, explain the causes next, then move into offering a solution. On the Slow Leadership site this week, I took things more or less in the opposite order, starting on Monday with part of the solution, giving my views on the reasons for the problem mid-week, and finally explaining the problem itself on Friday. This… » Continue
October 16 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: business-ethics, business-fundamentalism, civilized-work, doubt, Hamburger-Management, lifebalance, Management, office-politics, performance, slow-leadership, strategy, success, timemanagement, work, work-life, work/life-balance | 3 comments»
Despite all of mankind’s technological progress, some patterns seem rooted in human behavior. One of these is the tendency to grab for short-term gains and ignore the longer-term consequences, even when those are almost entirely predictable.
This attitude has been illustrated this week by the announcement from the Ford Motor Company of still more lay-offs, plant closures, and buy-outs of workers’ contracts. For years, Ford’s cars have been becoming less popular… » Continue
September 18 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: burnout, business-ethics, business-fundamentalism, civilized-work, ethics, Management, mission, performance, priorities, Productivity, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, work, work-life | 3 comments»
Over at Slow Leadership, this week has been all about using your time. I don’t set out to give each week’s postings a single theme, but sometimes it happens that way.
It began with considering the relationship between time, action and thought in a posting I called Taking Your Time. Some people claim that jumping into actions and decisions without stopping to think is the right thing… » Continue
August 28 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: Communication, concentration, decision, effectiveness, knowledge, leadership, learning, Management, misperception, performance, slow-leadership, thinking, thought, thoughts, time, timemanagement, work-life | 1 comment»
There’s a common saying that human beings were given two ears (and two eyes), but only one mouth to show that they should listen (and look) at least twice as much as they speak. I think that for managers and leaders that ratio is far too low. Looking and listening should happen maybe ten or more times for every time you open your mouth to make some pronouncement or decision… » Continue
August 21 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, attention, attitude, habit, information, knowledge, leadership, listening, looking, Management, office-politics, organization, people, performance, questions, slow-leadership, success, work, work-life, working, worklife | 2 comments»
Suppose someone asked you to list the most important qualities you would find in an outstanding leader. What would you say? Toughness? Authority? Decisiveness, perhaps? Tenacity? You could make a case for all of these. Today’s conventional thinking about leadership tends to stress the more active, resolute qualities in a leader. Leaders are expected to get results and remain effective under the constant pressure of globalized markets.
What I want to… » Continue
August 14 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, civilized-work, effectiveness, generosity, incentive, leadership, listening, Management, manager, mercy, micro-management, organization, performance, restraint, slow-leadership, work-life | no comments»
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