

Make Meetings Productive
You can move your team forward with leadership and intentional effort (Leading an Effective Meeting, Part 1) FEW FACTORS ARE more responsible for the glaring lack of effectiveness in the business world than the ridiculous excess of meetings. Unnecessary and badly led meetings suck up people’s time to a shocking degree, grinding achievement to a halt. “Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at th


Win Your Battle for Effectiveness
No matter how good your plan, you must play both offense and defense to apply it ─ here's how (Real-World Time Management, part 3) A FAMOUS MILITARY maxim states, “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” No matter how brilliant the strategy or how meticulous the plans, those plans are out the window once the shooting starts. Soldiers must improvise to meet unforeseen realities. The same holds true for your personal plan to pursue effectiveness (“doing the right things