How often do you deal with interruptions at work on a given day? If you are like most of us, you have no idea, you just know that it’s a lot. Professor Gloria Mark at University of California, Irvine, conducted…
How often do you deal with interruptions at work on a given day? If you are like most of us, you have no idea, you just know that it’s a lot. Professor Gloria Mark at University of California, Irvine, conducted…
One of the core competencies of all management is the ability to delegate effectively. In fact, failure to do so, in almost every case, means failure at your job. Many new managers must overcome resistance to delegation, and reasons for…
Despite all the books, seminars, speeches, courses and consultants that promise to teach us how to manage our time, the truth is that it’s impossible! No human effort can add to the 1,440 minutes that every person in the world…
Procrastination is a universal human behavior. Everyone has tasks that they find more difficult than others to get started on. This is typical, and no cause for undue handwringing and self-deprecation. But there is a more destructive sort of procrastination,…
EVERYBODY procrastinates! Some people do it more than others. And most of us have just certain tasks that we put off, while efficiently completing others. Piers Steel, industrial psychologist and professor at the University of Calgary, undertook a study spanning…
Are you the “go-to” person when something needs to be done? You chair committees, make phone calls, fill in for others, write the newsletter, plan the party and a host of others things that are not strictly your area of…
In a very select few areas of human endeavor, high achievement and perfectionism go hand-in-hand. Michelangelo was a perfectionist with his brush. Robert Frost was a perfectionist with his pen. For these, perfectionism paid off. But however counterintuitive it seems,…
“To Do” lists have been a part of my daily life for over 30 years. And I don’t think I’m alone in this. Most of you reading this use some sort of daily list of tasks you intend to accomplish…
I read about a ceramics teacher who divided his class into two groups. One group would be graded on the quantity of work they produced. In fact, he announced that at the end of the class he would bring a…