Twins – Double Your Efficiency, Double Your Fun
If I ever hear “Well – could you make a baby in one month with nine mothers?” again – I […]
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Team Leadership
Non-technical?!? Who are you calling non-technical?
I tried not to sputter as the young, no-grey haired, highly-respected PhD sporting engineering manager told me my suggestion did
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Effective risk management starts with experience.
We can study about risk management. We can take classes on steps for risk assessments. We can learn about using probability and impact to prioritize our hazard lists. But it’s experience that streamlines our risk assessment process. With experience we can quickly list only the relevant risks. Its experience that automatically eliminates the low probability and low impact items. The unnecessary items become invisible and therefore free time to focus on the more important items.
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How does one carefully maintain the balance between effective communication and time management?
The rule of thumb is that the answer to most questions starting with “should everything be” is “NO”.
It’s the same with this question.
Effective communication IS time management. It isn’t a trade-off, such as this question seems to imply. Consider how much time you waste through misinterpretation, vague directions, mistakes and hurt feelings when you are not communicating clearly?
There’s much more to this than meets the eye, but here are five of six tips to effective communication AND time management?
Perfecting versus perfection.
We’ve all heard the groan: “We have an aggressive schedule to meet.” The fact is, it’s not the “schedule” timeline that is aggressive; rather, it’s what we choose to fit into it. Adopting an attitude of progress refinement (perfecting over perfection) with the confidence percentage strategy helps reduce this tension between promised and actually delivered tasks.
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When are ultimatums appropriate?
Whether we are in the office or in a relationship, there are times when we hit a roadblock or impasse. So, when are ultimatums appropriate?
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Saying “YES” in difficult family situations
I recently conducted a “Say YES to everything – on your own terms” seminar based on the material from “”Just
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Bully Reaction
Extraordinary leaders can, at times, exhibit bully-like behavior. Sometimes they can slip into and out of that behavioral mode unknowingly,
Japan Tragedy – Selflessness
In my continuing quest to make meaning out of tragedy, here’s another in the series. It’s amazing to me how
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Japan Tragedy – Symbolic Acts
In my quest to make sense of the recent tragedy in Japan I’m writing about my experiences from Tokyo, where
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Two Keys to Project Management
After many years as a project manager as well as teaching about project management, I’ve come to the realization that
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