In my last blog (dated 2-17-14 about “Your Brain at Work), I wrote about my being more effective by eliminating brain clutter. More brain news- prioritize, and schedule your day first thing in the morning before you check your emails. Here’s why this makes such perfect sense. Activities like emails use enough energy that your…
In my job creativity is really important but like everyone else, so are the details. I have read a book called “Your Brain at Work”. One suggestion that author David Rock suggests is freeing your brain of “the list that rattles around in your head” — Did they send the package?; I need to remember…
I read in the LA Times about Warren Buffet at his recent annual meeting for Berkshire Hathaway inviting Doug Kass to be part of a handful of analysts posing impromptu questions to Warren and his second in command, Charlie Munger. What is interesting is not that a group of panelists will ask questions, but that…
Harvard Business Review’s article by Alex “Sandy” Pentland called the “The New Science of Building Great Teams” [HBR: April, 2012] defines, based on data, the ideal team player. Data was collected, using sensors, to look at communication, interaction and body language. This data made a link between successful teams and the type of interactions the…
When you are behind in a marketplace, the worst thing you can do is try to catch up. That position in the marketplace that someone else holds is hard to compete with. Getting ahead of the competition comes from leapfrogging the current way things are done and offering a new and improved way to do things.…