On my way to work this morning my trusty SUV rolled over 177777 miles. Now that’s not a big milestone, but a neat one to see on the odometer. It got me to thinking about personal milestones and how we measure where we are in life.
So often we try to measure our lives […]
I’ve worked with an equal number of commercial and non-profit organizations over the years and one of the most interesting people-types I’ve encountered is the new non-profit volunteer. Overflowing with energy and motivation, willing to take on any task, they jump right in on whatever you ask and plow right through it. These […]
Before I started my Getting Things Done practice I had some vague ideas about what I wanted to do with my life and where I wanted to go with it. I had not done any serious thinking about priorities or how to get where I wanted to be in the future.
The process of creating a […]
In about 10 years the number of young people getting into the workplace will no longer be enough to replace retirees.
Tim Cork, a career coach, stated in The Globe and Mail, “if you are fifty-something and you can expect to live into your 80s, you should be thinking of this as half-time and not the […]
By now we’ve probably all suffered the ill effects of poor email habits. Whether that’s the premature punch of the send button, or the too-quickly written screed drafted in anger, or the mistaken “To:” recipients, we’ve all been there and felt the sting.
Adding some strategy to these hard lessons is a new ChangeThis manifesto by […]
Laurence Haughton, author of one of my favorite books, “It’s Not What You Say…It’s What You Do” and also the bestseller “It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow“, has an new (free) web seminar coming up over at Microsoft Office Live.
The seminar is on May 29th, from 9am […]
There’s this thing about reading your favorite columnists: when they write books you can be pretty confident that you’re gonna enjoy the read. This has been true for me with Thomas Friedman, Malcolm Gladwell and now with Penelope Trunk.
Penelope is a columnist with the Boston Globe (read her column here and her blog here) and […]
Wow. This is a really good book. This is a book that I got from the publisher–I get offered books on a regular basis and I turn down about as many as I accept. I was a little skeptical and almost didn’t accept this one. The marketing materials pitched the book as the logical successor […]
Fascinating article popped up today regarding strategic incompetence. That’s basically the idea that from time to time it may behoove you to demonstrate an inability to learn to do something. I am convinced that this behavior pops up in two specific places: one process-oriented and one position-oriented.
From a process perspective, when folks get overloaded then […]
My friend Lisa Haneberg has a new book out (haven’t read it yet, but look for the review soon). To help promote the book she’s riding her motorcycle, Purple Haze, across the country and back. What a great trip that’ll be! You can check out her tour dates here. Lisa also made this neat […]
I’ve been intrigued by the idea of networking for a long time. But it’s always been a kind of voyeuristic activity for me since my natural inclination is to get a good book and go curl up in a cave somewhere. I’m the farthest thing imaginable from a natural networker. But the deal is […]
Just heard William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, on NPR this morning. He was talking about quick tips for negotiation strategies (he wrote a couple of books: Getting to Yes and Getting Past No, neither of which I’ve read yet). He seemed to be pitching a new book or methodology about how to […]
I’ve been a fan of Laurence Haughton’s writing and thinking for a while. He’s got a new webcast coming up on January 30, 2007 at 9:00 AM PT / Noon ET. The title is More Buy-In for New Ideas and Innovations: A strategy to overcome resistance to change and improve follow-through. Should be a […]
About a year ago, Kathy Sierra wrote a nice post that riffed on a keynote speech by Paul Graham that she’d recently attended. Relatedly, ChangeThis recently posted a manifesto by Graham called “The Power of the Marginal” which I highly recommend reading.
All this got me thinking about how often ego gets in the way of […]
Roman has a good recent post on how to find a mentor at work. There’s a comment on the post that hints that it isn’t possible to recruit a mentor and that they must find you rather than the other way around. The post also hints that if your mentor didn’t seek you as a […]
