Robert Story – Productivity

Celebrate Success | Jon Gordon’s Blog | Developing Positive Leaders, Organizations and Teams
Teams and organizations that focus on and celebrate success create more success. Success becomes ingrained in the culture and people naturally look for it, focus on it and expect it. That’s why certain football coaches and business leaders are always successful. They implement [...]

Tim Sanders offers the following “refreshment plan” for your summer:
1. Take at least one week off before Labor Day (if you have it available). Don’t sit around the house, go somewhere where nature will convince you forget about the world.
2. Don’t take your laptop with you on the trip. [...]

Audiobooks: Download The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Audiobook for Free
   Lifehacker is reporting that the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is avaible   for free download at Audible.com. This is worth checking out.

In his blog, Dennis Snow points to an article that is worth more than a couple of read-throughs, because if you are honest with yourself, you’ll probably come away convicted. As a leader at work, in the community or as a parent (now there I go, getting personal), what are you permitting and therefore promoting? [...]

Leadership is a choice | The Practice of Leadership
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
As people we are designed to choose. Like many other things in life, leadership too is a choice we make. . We do not become [...]

It’s hard to force yourself to sit down and write down your goals. Doing this means you actually have to THINK about them and face the hard facts about your current efforts (or lack thereof) to reach them. It also means that you have to carve-out the time to do this in a schedule that [...]

The real limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels and ability to pay attention.
Energy levels limit your productivity because when you’re tired, you can have ample time and still not get everything done. Your attention span is even more limited, because even if there are a million things that need to be done, [...]

ChangeThis Newsletter: The World Is Flat… Now It’s Free
Beginning tomorrow, and running through August 4th, Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Macmillan Audio will be offering the audio edition of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat for free. Listeners will receive the audiobook in three easy-to-download sections, and soon after that, as an added bonus, will [...]

The is the end of an article that is worth a full read. Click on the link at the bottom to check out the whole thing.
Talent issues are not small issues. They are big ones because they cut across all aspects of an organization’s life. If you want to attract talent, it isn’t simply the [...]

Oscar Peterson: A model of Engaged Performance.

Have you ever engaged this fully in your work – so much so that the work is transformed by you and you are transformed by the work?