I have had a “Comcast experience” over the past 2 weeks (photo is of their actual “finished” job) which took me about an hour to clean up.
(They actually went so far as to put in about 8 cable ties to reinforce the most tangled areas, making it impossible to even shove the pile of wires aside without cutting everything apart.) Read More
I was recently looking at my book RISE on my kindle to see what people were responding to, by checking out the “view popular highlights” feature.
The most highlighted passage was:
Think of your job as figuring out a better way to deal with all this stuff than it is to DO all this stuff and you’ll be on the right track. Read More
One of the things that I observe over and over again is just how much help highly successful people get from others.
What ever they are doing, they seem to have a vast cross-functional team of people at many levels, from many organizations, who are part of an unofficial project team that helps them achieve their objective. Read More
I’d like to make an announcement here on the blog, that I, Patty Azzarello, am not productive every single day.
I was sick this week and failed to get all kinds of things done that I had hoped to.
It got me thinking about blog post I wrote awhile back called “Your Brain on Stress…”
If you haven’t read it, it’s worth a read. Read More
I read a lot of good and useful books that I generally recommend, but most of them did not make this list.
These are the few books that when I read them, fundamentally changed my perspective on business and leadership forever after. Read More
You need to be viewed as credible if you want to be highly effective and get the recognition, resources, and trust you deserve.
But you can’t be credible if you are invisible.
Humble people often tell me,
“It’s the work that matters. Read More
Now that the dust has settled a bit about Marissa Meyer’s controversial “no working from home” policy at Yahoo!, I thought I’d weigh in.
Many companies provide work-from-home options. Employees love it.
But many managers struggle with it. They ask me about this all the time — How do you optimize motivation AND productivity? Read More
This month’s webinar was on
DEVELOPING STRATEGIC HABITS
If you missed it you can
Download the Podcast
or
Download the whole Webinar
(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)
This is a good webinar to download if you find yourself being drawn into tactical or administrative work too much of the time, or if you always feel too busy to accomplish important, longer-term things. Read More
Since this month’s upcoming webinar is on Developing Strategic Habits, I wanted to talk how becoming more valuable and being more strategic are connected.
Somebody recently asked me, “what do you mean by time management”?
My answer is this:
Time management is refusing to waste too much time on low-value, low-enjoyment activities.
There are two parts to it:
1. Identify what you should, or want to be doing
2. Read More
