I love this quick and easy way to use the research:
A Scientific Guide to Saying “No”: How to Avoid Temptation and Distraction – – The Buffer Blog.
I love this quick and easy way to use the research:
A Scientific Guide to Saying “No”: How to Avoid Temptation and Distraction – – The Buffer Blog.
This is something I talk to clients about all the time: the idea that becoming aware of, and then utilizing your natural energy patterns to their maximum advantage will help you be more productive and more effective.
Josh Linkner gives some simple, easy to understand examples here:
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Have you done a personal energy study lately?
A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy – HBR.
A great article about positioning from within the organization for power, regardless of formal position or title.
How can you get the best from deep, quiet team members during meetings? A look at practices used in some organizations points to an answer.
via Introverts, Extroverts, and the Complexities of Team Dynamics – HBR.
When an organization is at its most vulnerable point, it is also most poised to rebuild itself. At these seemingly disastrous moments, the risks and rewards normally associated with innovation are reversed.
Here’s an article from the amazing Jeff Degraff, the “Dean of Innovation” at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In it Jeff makes a powerful point, “Why Courage is More Important than Creativity” and gives a real and highly effective case study example.
via Why Courage Is More Important Than Creativity | Jeff DeGraff | LinkedIn.
We know that getting more women on teams can boost performance. The examples are numerous: Citing private internal research of 20,000 client teams, EY’s vice chair Beth Brooke has said that the more diverse teams had higher profitability and great client satisfaction than non-diverse teams. And professors Anita Woolley and Thomas W. Malone have learned that increasing the number of women on a team also increases its collective intelligence.
Yet when it comes to one of the most important “teams” a company has — its board of directors — the United States seems to have hit a ceiling of about 16% women, with little by way of national efforts by government or business to increase that number.
What do our bodies and , in particular, our hands show us about our information processing?
The body knows more than we know……
A fascinating article about some really interesting research!
I’d love to learn more. How about you?
Where is your focus?
Are you focusing your time, thoughts and energy in the right areas? In the right proportions?
This article addresses this so effectively, it could be a “must read” every morning for those of us who are striving for excellence. What are your thoughts?
Time, Energy and People – Your Three Biggest Assets | Finance Lights.
This is an interesting post by BBC columnist Lucy P. Marcus! I believe it is a thoughtful, (and right on target), picture of what true power really is.
How would you answer this question, and why?
This is excellent!!!
As an entrepreneur I have to be totally self-motivating and I know every one of these is important in being productive, engaged and focused on the right things.
When I coach executive clients, I find it is the rare leader who does not feel that they always have more work to do than they can get done, and that they all welcome ways that they can do more of the high value work and maintain a sense of ongoing progress and accomplishment.
7 Daily Mantras To Boost Your Productivity | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.