Four ways to create superior meetings

Four ways to create superior meetings

Do you look forward to meetings? (Yes, we know you just spit up your coffee when you read that.) Most people find meetings to be overly long, boring, repetitive and lacking concrete outcomes. Given how much of our work lives we spend in meetings, this issue of poorly...
The real cost of task switching

The real cost of task switching

I’m a closet multi-tasker.I secretly pride myself on being able to nimbly switch from one task to the next. In fact, I find it very unnerving to start a task and stick with it for a long period of time (more than 45 minutes) without checking email, staging a...
Hold up a minute

Hold up a minute

Rush, rush, rush. Decide, execute, move quickly! I get so caught up with getting stuff done that I rarely press the pause button. This may be fine on the surface. But the result is I am not as efficient and effective as I should be. This morning, I sent two emails to...