How To Recover From Burnout

One of the most important things I do as a leader is to monitor the margin I have in all of the life accounts included in my Life Plan.  I believe in work-life integration and not balance.  This allows me to have a short term deficit in one area as long as my overall margin […]

The Best Way To Be More Effective In 2018

We all get somewhat offended when we are in a room with other people and they all are glued to their device.  However, even in a working context our smart phones can make us stupid when it comes to productivity.  They become the classic urgent but not important input most of the time.  This post […]

4 Ways To Be More Effective

Productivity is a very big deal.  It’s the difference between working more hours or getting more high priority things done.  Over three years ago, I went paperless and have absolutely no regrets.  I use Nozbe and find it very effective in keeping the main things on top of the list.  This post by Ashley Stahl […]

Key Differences Between Management And Leadership

It still amazes me when I am working with corporate clients that there is still so much confusion between the roles of management and leadership.  There are many things in common, especially if you manage people instead of being an individual contributor.  However, their can be no doubt that there are fundamental differences between the […]

3 Strategies For Setting Healthy Personal Boundaries

It takes five times more character to say No to someone than it does to say Yes.  We want to please the other person and in reality we don’t know at that moment what is really important from what is not.  So we simply say yes, only later to regret the decision because we don’t […]