Posts in Category of: Productivity

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Accountability: Something New

May 2nd, 2023  |  Published in Accountability, Productivity

Fresh Insight about a Perennial Challenge Every year for the past fifteen years I’ve delivered an average of fifty private talks for business leaders, keynotes at conferences, and workshops for leadership teams. My most popular …

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Performance Hurdles

The Top 10 Performance Hurdles

April 11th, 2023  |  Published in Goal Setting, Leadership, Productivity, Strategic Planning

I’ve led more than 250 strategic planning sessions. While each planning session is different, I’ve seen firsthand that companies wrestle with performance issues in similar ways. Exceptional companies succeed by following …

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Leaders Get More Done

Where Did the Time Go? 7 Ways Leaders Get More Done in the Same 24 Hours

March 6th, 2023  |  Published in Accountability, Goal Setting, Leadership, Problem Solving, Productivity

In a few days, nearly half the world will “spring forward” into daylight saving time, losing an hour in their day. We each can lose more than an hour each …

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Improve Your Decisions

January 10th, 2023  |  Published in Leadership, Problem Solving, Productivity, Strategic Planning

How Great Leaders Decide What was your best decision of 2022? How did you make it? What was your worst decision of 2022? How did you make it? When asked …

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The 7 Fs

December 19th, 2022  |  Published in Leadership, Productivity

What Matters Most to You? Twelve years ago, I posted a blog entitled “A Time to Reflect” and the response was gratifying. Twelve more days and 2022 will be in the books. …

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It’s a Wonderful Life

December 6th, 2022  |  Published in Leadership, Productivity

How Many Lives Have You Truly Touched? By now, the storyline of It’s a Wonderful Life is familiar. But how many of these historical facts from the 1946 Christmas classic do you …

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Haunting Questions

October 20th, 2022  |  Published in Leadership, Productivity

Planning Season is Scary for Some Twelve years ago the first edition of That’s A Great Question was published. During the pandemic, I updated the book, providing more guidance on asking great …

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7 Dangerous Words

September 6th, 2022  |  Published in Leadership, Productivity

Two events on the calendar are colliding. The first event is the 50th anniversary of George Carlin’s 1972 record and subsequent live performances of “Seven Words You Can Never Say on …

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Innovation: Everyone’s Job

August 2nd, 2022  |  Published in Leadership, Productivity

In my book Accountability, the seventh of The Seven Pillars of Accountability is Evolving. The Seven Pillars are based on my research and interviews with leaders at several of Fortune …

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Relax, Reflect, Recharge

July 5th, 2022  |  Published in Leadership, Productivity

Summer is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere. Wherever you are, I hope you’re finding time to unplug from work. That’s because the greater your responsibility, the greater the …

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Blinkers Tell a Story

June 7th, 2022  |  Published in Leadership, Organization Health, Productivity, Strategic Planning

This article was first published in June 2012. It’s been updated due to its popularity and is being re-posted following our return from Portugal where I’m happy to report we …

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The 5 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams

October 5th, 2021  |  Published in Productivity

What causes some teams to achieve remarkable results and others to flounder? When I’m invited to speak to groups of business leaders on the topic of accountability, I begin by …

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Eleanor Roosevelt

5 Questions Your Employees Want Answered

November 7th, 2018  |  Published in Productivity

A Timely Leadership Lesson from Eleanor Roosevelt Today in America is Election Day. Have you voted? If not, will you? It’s easy to take certain freedoms for granted, and in …

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How's Your Team Doing?

It’s a New Season. How’s Your Team Doing?

October 2nd, 2018  |  Published in Accountability, Organization Health, Productivity

Wit and Wisdom from Football’s Best We’re five weeks into the college football season and some teams are peaking while others are already fading. How’s your team doing? When the …

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Deadline Approaching! 3 Tips to Reduce Fire-Fighting

October 16th, 2017  |  Published in Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Problem Solving, Productivity

An organization reveals its personality by how it meets or misses deadlines. What I often see are two distinct personalities within a single organization. Call it organizational multiple personality disorder: …

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Lighten Up! What Mental Baggage is Weighing You Down?

July 31st, 2017  |  Published in Productivity

August is vacation time for many of us. After determining your destination and booking your reservations, it’s time to pack your bags and head out on your journey. Luggage is …

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Intuition vs. Regret: How the Beatles Climbed to the Top of the Charts

June 19th, 2017  |  Published in Productivity, Strategic Planning

What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Beatles Chances to secure a recording contract were evaporating. The Beatles had talent, judging from audiences they drew regularly in clubs around England, …

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What is Poor Performance Costing You?

September 9th, 2016  |  Published in Accountability, Leadership, Productivity

When Will You Decide Enough is Enough? In an earlier post, 8 Questions to Ask About Accountability, we tackled the topic of underperformance and took a fresh look at confronting …

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Your Most Productive Day

June 19th, 2012  |  Published in Productivity, Strategic Planning

What’s your most productive day at work? In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs tomorrow and some leaders believe the extra sunlight makes them more productive. (In the Southern …

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How Are You Doing?

May 15th, 2012  |  Published in Productivity, Strategic Planning

Think back 137 days to New Year’s Eve. Even if you didn’t purposefully say or write down a couple of things you wanted to accomplish in 2012, you at least …

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