Get More Done – Interrupt Your Interruptions
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
The product and service you provide will go a long way towards your eventual success or failure, but it’s not the only factor. There’s a lot of “behind the scenes,” even invisible, forces that ultimately impact how well your business will do. One such example is the qualities that drive your business. This essentially dictates…
A lot of business owners have to be on the road a lot. Whether it’s driving from one client to the next or flying to another country to close the deal. It does make running a business a little bit more complicated, especially if you do a lot of it yourself. Maybe you’re on flights…
The way businesses are using data is being analyzed by the very people it is taken from – customers. After numerous scandals, My Customers points out that a massive 73% say they are wary of how companies use their information. 56% plan on sharing less in the future. Although it’s healthy for shoppers, it’s bad…
Right now, more and more people are considering setting up their own businesses. The coronavirus and Covid-19 pandemic has seen many people lose jobs and many of us are now looking to take control over our own careers and set up our own companies that we can manage ourselves. Of course, setting up a business…
If there’s one thing that just about every business owner has to understand if they want their business to succeed, it’s risk. The reality is that setting up a business is a seriously risky venture. There are so many different things that can go wrong and if you’re not prepared to deal with them then…
In the business marketplace, competition tends to facilitate productivity, and entrepreneurs always need to find ways to stay ahead of their counterparts. Matching up to the competition’s primary objectives of improving value, increasing revenue base, and expanding the customer net requires a great deal of creativity, business-savviness, and good judgment. Therefore, it’s not surprising that 94% of businesses…
It is a common refrain across every industry and every size organization today. In addition to, “I am having trouble finding the right people or any people in some cases! And once we get them, keeping them is harder than ever.” There are a lot of innovative ways to address the shrinking labor pool and…
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
And we can create whole new pathways, new structures and frameworks constantly. This neuroplasticity requires the crucial ingredients of time and intention. Typically in unexpected change, we go through various phases including: Shock | a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience | “What is this?” Denial | looking for evidence it is not…
Source The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace, and so should your company. In order to remain competitive, you need to keep pace by hiring writers that will spek the language of your consumers. By investing in bilingual employees who are able to speak and understand the changing trends you are enabling your content…
Want your organization to win in 2022? Start by practicing these winning habits.
Many acronyms are negative and self-inhibiting. They stop us from pondering possibilities or alternatives. Here’s one that will switch your thinking from negative to positive.
Your #1 job as a leader is to create a compelling vision of winning
Curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something
Your employees are making decisions right now. How do they now the best ones if they don’t know the business of your business?
To make this a reality, leaders need to develop transparent thinking in themselves and their team members.
Roger Bannister set out to become the first athlete to break the four-minute mile. “Experts” told him it was impossible. Some even suggested he was risking death; doctors told him his heart would explode! Not only did Bannister not die, but the week after he broke the barrier another runner followed in his footsteps,…
No doubt 2020 was a challenging year in so many ways. Whether you were busier than you ever dreamed because market conditions changed in your favor, or you were shut down, had supply chains completely disrupted, or found your customers were negatively impacted, 2020 tested us at work. And that doesn’t even begin to cover…
Effective business management requires balancing the big picture with the details.
Today’s uncertain and volatile business landscape calls for new ways of thinking and working. So why do most companies attempt to solve problems and manage massive change in the wrong manner? A lot of it has to do with the way the human brain works. Our brains love certainty and predictability. So when faced with…
Individual and organizational brains in constant, unexpected change If you are like many, you were certain in April that by June we would see a settling in to the ‘new normal’. And then in May, once again, many of us were sure that by the end of June, our norms would be reset, and we…
During times of uncertainty, human beings seek community and safety, and many find it in the workplace. Work typically provides a much-needed sense of stability and control over at least one aspect of our lives when everything else has gone topsy-turvy. Yet, millions of people have lost their jobs, either temporarily or permanently, due to…
Why is it so hard to keep up with the pace of change these days? Some ascribe it to the overwhelming amount of information we try to process every day. Others point to the rapid pace of change. Both are partly to blame. But the primary reason is our brains were not constructed to work…
The human brain is an amazing tool. But there’s one thing it doesn’t handle very well – change. Especially change of the magnitude brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody saw this virus coming, but it has turned our world upside down. Our challenge as leaders is how we respond to it – a task…