INSIGHTS (on leadership/self-leadership) Ever wanted to give a TED talk? Well, now you can at least present like a good TED talker by following the 10 rules that TED … [Read more...]
Use the Law of Opposites to Stand Out Among the Zillion Zoom Meetings You’re In
If you’ve got to sit in 1,000 virtual meetings, you might as well stand out
You just…can’t…do…another…one today. Zoom meetings that is. (Or Microsoft Teams, or Google Hangouts etc. etc. etc.) It’s a work hazard today as real as the hazards that … [Read more...]
Issue #5: On Usefulness, Multi-tasking, and More
INSIGHTS (on leadership/self-leadership) • In your quest for happiness at work/in life, try aiming for something else that yields happiness as a side effect, and a deeper … [Read more...]
Harvard Study: This Frequent Bad Habit is Killing Your Happiness
It's a habit you can change with just a little intentionality
After giving a keynote, I was speaking with some audience members, all CEO’s of small companies. They were describing how exasperating it is to keep today’s employee … [Read more...]
Tim Cook Just Revealed That Steve Jobs Convinced Him to Join Near-Bankrupt Apple With 1 Powerful Thought
The current Apple CEO revealed his origin story during a recent commencement speech
In Tim Cook's recent commencement speech at Tulane University, he shared the secret to dealing with your critics, intoning a refrain that will stick with me: "We don't … [Read more...]
These Common Mental Mistakes Are Destroying Your Productivity. Here’s How to Fix Them
These mistakes ruin your proclivity for productivity
The pursuit of productivity has become an obsession, with no shortage of advice available for how to increase one's output. Similarly, advice on how … [Read more...]
A Huge Study Says This is the Number 1 Productivity Trick (I Tried It–It Works)
Productivity hacks are a dime a dozen. This one's worth a little investment
When it comes to the category of productivity hacks, I’d like to know who its publicist is and hire him or her, because the press is unbelievable. From productivity experiments … [Read more...]
Highly Intelligent People Avoid Making Bad Decisions By Doing 6 Things, According to Psychology
High IQ and EQ leaders don't let themselves get caught in these six traps that lead to poor choices
Decisions, decisions. You make them all day long, big and small. It's hard enough to make the right call when you have the time, support, and resources you need, … [Read more...]
Psychology and Neuroscience Blow-Up the Myth of Effective Multitasking
Your days of believing you're good at multitasking are over. Turns out you've been fooling yourself.
May I gore you with an inconvenient truth? (See what I did there?) We sacrifice our power of full presence when we’re multitasking, and we do so for a perceived … [Read more...]
