Monday I identified the following four issues with our current approach to team building and productivity in the workplace. Our systems of evaluation and compensation are all skewed toward individual performance rather than team performance. Our management structures tend to…
The Practice of Productivity
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Collectivism v Individualism in work teams Part II
Tagged with: appraisal, leadership, performance, productivity, team chemistry, teamwork
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
What I did on my summer vacation: Brazil, Boston, Beards
Is there a beneficial collectivism that supports and maintains the individual while enhancing the chances for attaining success en toto? Really, that’s your first sentence after two weeks vacation? I have spent the last two weeks with my wife’s family…
Tagged with: collectivism, Family, human interdependence, leadership, Practice, productivity, projects, Purpose, semi precious gems, team chemistry, teams, teamwork
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Integrity – Internal Grit
Is it cheating if everyone is doing it? Is fairness just a level playing field? Are the win and profit at all costs mentality exemplified by the BioGenesis 13 and Johnny Football our new standard? In the past few weeks…
Tagged with: alignment, health, integrity, mental ecology, Purpose, self management, wellness, wisdom, zero sum
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Wellness
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Wellness
The win at all costs culture
Performance enhancement. It’s all over the sports pages, it dominated the business news during the credit default crisis, it fills your email spam folder. So we could take the conversation in a lot of directions. Is it a predominantly male…
Tagged with: alignment, dovetailed outcomes, flexibility, goals, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Blazing new Frontiers
I was thinking this morning about how I admire people who light out on their own and build something new. That doesn’t have to be inventing the geodesic dome (but I did watch a YouTube video on Buckminster Fuller). It could be…
Tagged with: focus, goals, innovation, inspiration, leadership, new frontier, Practice, Preparation, productivity, Purpose, self management, vision
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
People will Come!
People will most definitely come. You put your dream out there! You trust it even when there are naysayers and bill collectors. Prepare your inner intention, line up your outer action and people will come! I have been seeing this…
Tagged with: alignment, baseball, dreams, focus, goals, inspiration, Practice, Preparation, Prepare, productivity, self management, wisdom
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Quotes
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Quotes
Reframing. A technique for overcoming limiting beliefs
One of the biggest obstacles to accomplishing goals we set for ourselves is overcoming the limiting beliefs we hold. Here’s the math. It’s all about vectors and force. We are trying to get from point A to point B. We…
Tagged with: alignment, goals, learning, limiting beliefs, Practice, productivity, reframing, resistance, sales, self management, vectors, vision
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Wellness
Powerful Habits To Build Your Career Every Day
Here is a link to a decent article from Fast Company on building a habit of building your business. Not just for freelancers and sole proprietors. These are good habits for everyone. Plus it starts with this cool quote from…
Tagged with: aristotle, business innovation, habit, microscopic change, productivity, self management, sole proprietors
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Quotes
Day Seven – Chakras and Productivity
The Seventh Chakra, called Sahasrara, is the 1,000 petal lotus at the crown of the head. This is the area of true inspiration and purpose. Some would call it our connection to the divine. Maybe Plato would have called it…
Tagged with: chakra, cycle of completion, feedback, focus, Getting Things Done, goals, higher self, inspiration, Joy, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, Purpose, self management, wellness, wisdom, Yoga
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Day 5 – Chakras and Productivity
Today we move to the fifth Chakra called Vishuddha. Located in the area of the throat and also incorporating the neck, jaws and ears this Chakra as you might guess is the center of communication. Let’s take a quick minute to…
Tagged with: action, alignment, chakra, communication, creativity and flow, fifth chakra, inner guidance, productive practice, Yoga
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
The Practice of Productivity 