Management

Acme Productivity Enhancer –
Bottleneck removal at your fingertips.

March 11, 2009

The difficult business environment has me thinking about productivity in the workplace, about doing more with less. In my experience, a key to improved productivity is the application of bottleneck remover or, said another way, delegate. Productivity is nice, but delegation can be scary. “What if they don’t do what I want done the way [...]

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How to Write a Meeting Agenda – Making PALs

March 9, 2009

Do meetings make you crazy? Personally, I like them. When there’s an effective meeting agenda, it’s a chance to interact with colleagues and share ideas but, when they don’t have structure, when there’s no agenda, they make me crazy too. Like most things, planning is the key to success. There are three broad elements to [...]

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It’s Going to be a Disaster –
Don’t Panic

February 13, 2009

Something went wrong, it’s going to be a disaster, etc.. Stuff always goes wrong. Don’t panic, when things go wrong be a problem solver, not a problem identifier. There are a number of things you can do to mitigate the problem’s impact and, when you have everything under control, there are some things you can [...]

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