The Top 7 Management Tips From Harvard Business Review
rvard Business Review recently released a book of their top Management Tips. Here are the ones I felt were the most insightful and actionable. Get Through Your To-Do List Via Management Tips From Harvard Business Review: Self-discipline is hard. Try these three tips to make your work more efficient every day: Get three things done before noon. Statistics show that the team ahead at halftime is more likely to win the game. Enjoy your lunch knowing that you accomplished at least three tasks…
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10 Things The Greatest Leaders All Have In Common
bsp; Know The Power Of Feelings Leaders who just focus on results don't do nearly as well as those that also pay attention to relationships. Via Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect: Zenger found that if employees rated a manager as very high on "focus on results" (that is, one's ability to get things done effectively), there was only a small (14 percent) chance that the manager would be rated among the top 10 percent of leaders overall. However,…
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What Do Successful People Have In Common? 8 Things.
sy Busy Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, examines the work habits of over 150 of the greatest writers, artists and scientists. What did they all have in common? A relentless pace of work. Via Daily Rituals: How Artists Work “Sooner or later,” Pritchett writes, “the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.” What did Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer find when he looked at high achievers like LBJ and Robert Moses? 60-65…
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4 Easy Ways You Can Resolve Life’s Toughest Questions
w To Work More Efficiently Use the Eisenhower Matrix. Via The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking: The US President Dwight D. Eisenhower supposedly once said: ‘The most urgent decisions are rarely the most important ones’. Eisenhower was considered a master of time management, i.e. he had the ability to do everything as and when it needed to be done. With the Eisenhower method, you will learn to distinguish between what is important and what is urgent. Whatever the job…
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The One Simple Thing That Can Make You Much More Impressive
ow More Enthusiasm Professor Stephen Ceci taught his class the way he had for the past 20 years, replicating nearly everything imaginable: Same book, same lectures, same exams... even the same student demographics. Via The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are: He took great pains to make sure everything else about the class was the same as it had been the previous fall; he used the same book, the same lectures, the same grading…
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The 5 Step Formula For Presenting Like A Leader
ny books have tactics for giving a good presentation but few establish a reliable structure that works every time. In The New Articulate Executive : Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader Granville Toogood lays out an excellent 5 part progression for effective presentations. 1) Start Strong Just like a good movie, you want to start out with something that really grabs the audience. "But how do I do that?" The book provides a great list of techniques. Via The New…
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How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big
ott Adams created a multimillion dollar empire. That empire is more commonly known as"Dilbert." I mentioned him on this blog before because he gave some of the simplest, most profound advice for getting along with people that I've ever heard: Be brief and say something positive. If you've read Dilbert, you know Adams understands a great deal about human nature. (Then again I probably relate more to Calvin and Hobbes than most of the western canon.) His new book, How…
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2 Easy Ways To Increase Willpower — Courtesy Of The Cookie Monster
llpower Is Destiny Haven't we all heard of Mischel's Marshmallow Self-Control Test by now? If not, here's a quick summary: Stick a little kid alone in a room with nothing but a marshmallow. Tell the kid they can eat it now or, if they wait 15 minutes, they get two. Then you leave the kid alone. Some children eat the marshmallow immediately, others wait and earn two. Big deal, right? Wrong. It's a huge deal. Check with those kids 20 years…
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