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Do You Understand the Power of Instant Rejection?
A friend referred me to Vinod Khosla’s Five-Second Rule at Forbes.com. It’s about the slide decks we use for presenting, and its wisdom is a lot like what you get in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink or...
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Tell the Truth: Where Are You Most Productive?
Interesting post today where Steve King at Small Business Labs asks Is The Traditional Office the Least Productive Place to Work? He cites professional research and uses clear logic. But I still think...
View Article1 Great Tip for Better Story Power for Business
Here’s a great tip for anybody presenting anything to an audience: Skip the boring preamble. Many times we feel like we have to do a lot of prefacing, but four minutes goes by quickly. If you spend two...
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Do We Have Any Idea What Productivity Really Is?
Have you thought about productivity lately? And how anybody measures productivity? I think it’s a concept that grew up with the industrial revolution. Productivity was measured as factory work, in...
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Double Your Productivity with Real Focus
According to the emails and comments, Tony Schwartz’ post The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time on the Harvard Business Review is getting a lot of attention this morning. He says: Tell the truth: Do...
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I Love These 5 Use-Everywhere Apps
What makes good software? For me, the use-everywhere factor is a big deal. I work with a desktop using Windows 7, a Mac at home and a Macbook for travel, mobile phone and a tablet computer. The more my...
View ArticleOh No! Microbreaks Are Productive, Real Breaks Aren’t
What, no coffee break? This feels vaguely like the idea that so-called grazing all day is better than three good meals and nothing else. Clearly, I’m way too old-fashioned. I just discovered that...
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7 Bad Habits That Aren’t, plus a Great Title That Is
Here’s a great title: The 7 Bad Habits of Insanely Productive People. That was on copyblogger last week, posted by Sonia Simone, one of the nicest plays on contradiction and irony I’ve seen a while....
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7 Steps to Practical Business Stories
Remember, stories aren’t just stories. They’re truth and promise and relationships established. They’re vital to business. There’s more truth in stories than in all the statistics ever published....
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50 Great Productivity Tips from Famous People
The blog at onlineMBA has an interesting post called 50 terrific productivity secrets of the rich and famous. It’s a lot of fun, and some good tips too. You can see the highlights here in the graphic....
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Why Steve Strauss Hires English Majors
By the way, did I say I was an English major for my BA? Yes, software entrepreneur, yes, business planner, erstwhile programmer, and MBA … but I carry around a degree in English Literature. I don’t...
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I’m Too Busy To Read That Book on Busyness
This interesting book review came out this morning on slate.com: In her new book, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, Washington Post reporter Brigid Schulte calls this cultural...
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What’s In It For You from The Startup America Partnership
So how cool is this? The Startup America Partnership is offering a collection of real business tools and resources, mostly web-based, to help high-growth startups. This was announced at the White House...
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Will Success Spoil Ted.com?
I’ve watched dozens of TED talks online and never seen a bad one. TED stands for Technology, Education, and Design. It started in 1984. Since 1990 it was located in a conference center outside of...
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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Fear
Whether you’re making a speech before thousands of people in an auditorium or just two people in the small conference room, there are professionals who proclaim confidence is key. Stay poised – be bold...
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Creativity and Clutter – Friends or Enemies?
Does clutter affect creativity? I can give you quotes that say it does, and research that says it doesn’t. There’s lots of anecdotal evidence for either side. What do you think? My own experience goes...
View ArticleSurprising Truth About What Motivates People
This is another short video, barely 10 minutes, thoroughly worth watching, based on a talk by Dan Pink. We take for granted that we know what motivates people. This piece makes you think about it, and,...
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Invention is the Mother of Necessity: Technology and Productivity
Have you heard the standard cliche: “Necessity is the Mother of Invention?” In business technology and productivity, in my experience at least, the old standard is reversed: the new truth is that...
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You Need to Understand the Business Principle of Displacement
Imagine a bucket of water full to the brim, on a table, right next to a phone and a computer. Now take a brick and drop it into that bucket. Imagine what happens. Water splashes out, right? And that’s...
View ArticleChris Anderson on What Makes a Great TED Talk
For a video today I found this delightful TED talk about TED talks. TED, which stands for technology, education, and design, has become an amazing collection of great 5-to-20-minute talks, some of the...
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