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Many and More Tips for Personal Productivity!

Personal productivity is something that can ALWAYS be improved. It's always changing too, as our goals and ideas change.

Be your most productive self using the top personal productivity tips below:

Be realistic and say 'NO'! I know this tip is on everybody's list of ideas for improving personal productivity. But that's because it's a good one. Are you sometimes too eager to impress and over-promise? When we have too much on, everything suffers. A key foundation...

Unusual 'Business as Usual' - 4 Lenses of Innovation

Our world is facing a tsunami of change. As business leaders, you have the option of riding the wave of change on a surfboard of innovation and creativity. Or, you can bask on 'comfort zone' beach as usual and wait to be swamped. Because contrary to popular belief, there is nothing mystical about innovation. It is within the reach of all of us, when we look at our enterprises through Rowan Gibson's "4 Lenses of...

Wealth Creation Demands Focus and Determination

Personal productivity is a daily choice. For all of us, there are two sorts of tasks to do: Steve McClatchy calls them 'move toward gain' tasks and 'prevent pain' tasks. I call them 'wealth-creators' and 'chores.' Chores are everyday tasks like getting your car serviced or your office cleaned. Of course, they all have to be done, but there are no great gains to be had in accomplishing them only downsides to not getting them done well and on time. Studies show that Chores...

Thriving in a Matrix World

Your role is 'Champion of Continuous Improvement'...

When you recognize that your business is a key part of the global economic matrix, you can grow and develop along with it, by working matrix style, as and when needed. Matrix organizations came about in the 60's in the project-based aeronautics sector. Collaborative teams and synergy put Americans on the moon. Unlike traditional hierarchies, employees working in a matrix report to more than one manager while the project...

DELEGATION: Like a Journey in 4 Stages

When you delegate effectively you take your enterprise with you. Out of the wilderness of work overload (for you, but under-load and disengagement for others) and into the promised land of productivity... Your own, AND the rest of your team's. It's an epic, virtuous circle journey, which never actually ends, but does go through 4 stages. ...