What if I told you the answer to the ol’ question of “how to be more productive at work” could happen in 4 steps? Being more productive at work seems like a goal — or rather, it should be a… Continue Reading
I’ve been working 13 years. I’m about to turn 35 years old. (Less than one month, yay.) The first two years I was working, I taught inner-city elementary school in Houston as part of Teach for America. Then, I worked for… Continue Reading
I talked to my friend about this the other night and thought it was interesting, so I decided to turn it into a quick blog. I wouldn’t say that “smart” and “fast” are necessarily the only two ways that an organization can… Continue Reading
I’ve been doing some writing and editing for this OPEN for Business blog recently, and today my friend Steve Dunlap fired off a new post about “firing yourself.” The concept is pretty basic to understand, but to summarize, every year —… Continue Reading
Was just reading this review of #CMWorld from a few weeks ago in Cleveland — it’s a content marketing conference, if you don’t know — and came across this section: This approach is the result of us starting out with… Continue Reading
This attitude will probably mess with a lot of people’s heads, because waiting for permission is often seen as a crucial part of hierarchy, and when hierarchy collapses, a team/department/organization can collapse too, right? (Right, and that may never change.) But think about… Continue Reading
I’m fully of the belief that 55 hours of work/week is a hard ceiling, but I also know a ton of people I’ve worked with over my life who run around screaming about headcount, bandwith, and deliverables with their hair… Continue Reading
Check out this graphic; I got it from an article on Harvard Business Review about the leadership traits that employees don’t like about their managers: Break this down for a second: