Extreme productivity requires that you take control of how you spend your time. From my experience, a huge amount of corporate time is spent in meetings. Since time is your most important resource, taking a closer look at how you […]
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One of the fastest cars in the world is the Bugatti Veyron. Its maximum speed is 415 km/h (258 mph). Unfortunately, at this speed, it takes 20 minutes before the car needs to refuel: Though Bugatti succeeded in making one of […]
Improving other people is a delicate subject. The issue is often that we have great ideas for others, but many times encounter an almost hostile audience. Why is that? First, we need to understand that ideas for other people to […]
Individuals who get a lot of things done, typically have certain habits which make them exceptionally productive. One of these habits is the principle of Task to Time (TtT). The principle of Task to Time (TtT) means that you schedule […]
My favorite scene of the Saturday Night Live show is ‘More Cowbell.’ In this sketch we see a live studio recording of a famous Blue Oyster Cult song, including a disruptive ‘cowbell’ player. Finally the studio director steps in. To […]
Do you want to quickly improve the innovation power of your company? If so, start with the exact opposite: Imagine you want to creatively kill innovation in your company instead. You need to: Create an innovation sandbox. The borders of […]
Business results are downstream from culture. Culture determines what you’re focused on. What you’re focused on gets done. A few years ago, I worked with a company which was struggling with innovation and top line growth. Digging a bit deeper, […]
On December 21, 1954, dozens of individuals, headed by Dorothy Martin, were sitting in a room, awaiting the apocalypse as promised by the Clarion alien civilization. They were members of a Doomsday cult, which predicted the end of the world […]
You don’t have to be ill in order to get better. If you want to get better rapidly, you need to build on your strengths. This often requires getting rid of unhelpful habits which actually mask your strengths. One of […]
The size of your funeral will be determined by the weather. For many of us, this realization is both disheartening and sobering. Our natural tendency is to think we matter, which explains why the words why, meaning and legacy have become an important part […]
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