Outcomes
Do you conduct or cushion urgency?
In case you haven’t noticed, your team is probably drowning in emails, buried in meetings and struggling to deliver the critical outcomes you and the organisation ...
Busy: A story we tell ourselves
Two executives bump into each other in a lift. One asks the other how she is going. She replies “Busy”. It is almost an instinctive answer that we give when aske...
How is your productivity fitness?
Professional athletes in sports like rugby, soccer or AFL need a mix of anaerobic fitness and aerobic fitness to excel on the field. Anaerobic fitness is critical to...
The Holy Trinity of the Inbox
In a recent coaching session with a senior client, I had to give the executive some brutal and honest feedback. He had come to me with a specific problem. My Inbox i...
The death of email
A few weeks ago, I read a report that Ray Tomlinson, the man credited with the invention of email as we know it, as well as the @ symbol, died at the age of 74. It g...
Email Stereotypes – Which one are you?
Email Stereotypes - Which one are you? I hate to stereotype - except when it provides a learning opportunity! I have recently been struck by the fact that I ten...