Bryan Miles, CEO & Co-founder, Miles Advisory Group You’ve been there before: you’re at a trade show or important event and you’ve got to focus on networking, speaking, and attending important sessions, but your email and tasks just keep piling up. You know they are, and the idea of sorting through all these items when […]
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Devora Zack, CEO of Only Connect Consulting, Inc. Life in the Fast Lane We are living distracted lives. Raise your hand if you have observed people doing any of the following: Colliding with others while looking at a phone Not driving when the light turns green Playing games on handheld devices at professional events Not noticing
Have you ever been in a meeting and thought about how much more work you would get done if you were spending your time elsewhere? If so, then you have fallen victim to an unproductive meeting. We’ve all been there. But, as leaders we have the capability to shift team culture and activate the potential
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Ways That Technology Might Be Inhibiting Our Efficiency and Solutions to Maximizing its Benefits Benoît Gruber, VP Corporate Communication, Sage Enterprise Market Europe & Sage ERP X3 Welcome to the Digital Age. Gone are the days of typewriters, Polaroid cameras and rotary phones. Computers, digital cameras and smart phones have not only replaced their prehistoric
Mr. Richard Milam, founder, EnableSoft, Inc. It’s a sad but true fact that it can be difficult for employees to focus on work over the holiday season, even while more and more of them take less time off. A 2013 survey by CareerBuilder revealed that about half of all employees planned on doing some of their
David Ashen, Principal & Founder, Dash Design Do you spend a good deal of your time travelling to service or grow your business? If so, I can definitely relate. Like many CEO’s, I spend about 40 to 50 percent of my time on the road. While there are many positives to that face time with
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Edward G. Brown, Founder, Cohen Brown Management Group “The Employee of the Month Has a Battery” Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2014 CEOs and investors are right to worry when they see productivity gains from the digital revolution tailing off. But many seem to have a quaint faith that salvation comes from one source only, the
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Airline captains don’t have an “open door policy, and there’s a good reason for that. Aside from the obvious terrorist and crazy passenger threats, airline pilots realize they face another adversary: treacherous interruptions. In 1974 an Eastern Airlines flight carrying seventy-eight passengers and four crew members crashed in dense fog during an instrument approach into
John Canfield Why change meetings? I think changing meetings, so that they can be more collaborative, could be the most important thing an organization could do to improve its performance. If you have decided to move ahead, and develop your organization so it could be more collaborative, improve your meeting
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