Posts Tagged ‘workstyle’

How to use natural selection to drive your career

Charles Darwin was one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time. His Theory of Evolution is accepted just about universally in the scientific community. It explains that all life is driven by a process that he called Natural Selection.

Life is a constant competition for survival. When creatures reproduce, tiny changes and imperfections are introduced into the next generation. Most fail. But a few, a very few, successful… » Continue

April 16 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: ability, development, workstyle | 2 comments»

Putting Your Trust in . . . Trust

Trust is an essential component in almost all dealings between human beings, other than outright hostile ones like wars and terrorism. It is certainly vital for the proper running of any organization, as well as for almost all the components of trade and commerce. Lack of trust between trading partners undermines the proper functioning of business. Mistrust is a major cause of excessive (and unnecessary) workload on leaders, since the… » Continue

November 27 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: business-ethics, civilized-work, collaboration, commitment, corporate-culture, empowerment, Hamburger-Management, honesty, innovation, integrity, leadership, Lifehack, Management, micro-management, motivation, office-politics, relationships, teamwork, trust, work, work-life, workstyle | 2 comments»

Ask Readers: Working from Home Myths?

It comes to my attention of a blog post - Rob Sanheim talks about his friends’ misconceptions on his working from home style. Comments like:

Oh, you must watch your kids/pets/tv/chia pet all day, then, right?
You have less distractions.
You can work whenever you want.
You can save a ton on tax deductions!
OMG!! Working from home must be like heaven on earth

Some of you who work from home may yell - “No… » Continue

November 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: home, workspace, workstyle | 12 comments»

Slow Down to Win Customers

Winning new customers and keeping current ones happy isn’t helped by trying to work too fast. Customers are rarely as impressed by sheer speed as they are by clear evidence that you are trying to understand their real needs and make sure you can deal with them fully.

The easiest way to make anyone feel special is to give them your time and undivided attention. By slowing down, giving each customer… » Continue

July 17 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, attention, business, Communication, focus, listening, Management, performance, Productivity, selling, work, workstyle | 4 comments»

“Hamburger Management”

A leader forced to utilize “hamburger management” is like a cordon bleu chef told to work as a short-order cook and produce nothing but hamburgers with french fries every day. Any organization that uses this approach is like a diner who eats nothing else. The first becomes bored, frustrated and disillusioned; the second becomes sick rather quickly.

Hamburger management is any form of leadership or management technique that utilizes only a… » Continue

July 9 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: civilized-work, creativity, decision, leadership, managememt, Management, manager, organization, overwork, performance, prioritization, time, timemanagement, work, work-life, workflow, workstyle | 4 comments»

Appointment bookends: Use ‘em.

I have some very simple advice for you this week which can revolutionize your workweek productivity.

It describes a habit I had fallen into out of sheer necessity when I was a corporate VP in operations, finding that appointments could easily and completely dominate my entire day if I allowed them to. My calendar was a parade of interviews, employee counseling, staff meetings, vendor appointments, and customer meet-and-greets, all those same… » Continue

June 15 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: appointments, calendar, Productivity, schedule, workstyle | 7 comments»

Wanted: Your Best Workflows

One thing that is “evergreen” with the Getting Things Done set is the topic of workflows. HOW do you do things? What’s your process? How do you settle in and decide what to attack first, second, and so on, until you’re done?

My good friend, Shawn, and I were talking about workflows when I wrote about Gmail and the calendar. So, it got me wondering, what are YOUR workflows?

Share… » Continue

May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: Productivity, work-life, workflow, workstyle | 4 comments»