I’m excited to share with you that I’ve been invited to be a contributor to the Forbes Leadership Channel! Twice each month I’ll be sharing insights from my lifelong study of productivity and performance, and my work with executives and teams. You can sign up to...
This post was updated May 17, 2020 Every leader knows one of the most challenging aspects of your role is managing and developing your people—identifying the gaps in their skills, and helping them to fill those gaps. Building and growing a team of capable and...
My new book, Attention Management: How To Create Success And Gain Productivity – EVERY DAY, launched in early September. Since then, there has been a whirlwind of media events, such as podcasts, and TV, radio, and print interviews. I’ve had a busy fall, and it’s only...
Guest post by Shawn Thomas With the vast number and variety of employee training options available, many business leaders wonder how they can best choose corporate training programs that will deliver the results their company needs and wants. For those leaders who...
If someone gave you $40, would you spend it on stuff or on a service that helps you save time? One of those purchases will make you happier than the other one, a new study has found. And it's not the one you might think. Researchers assigned the study participants to...
My latest article for Harvard Business Review is based on something that happens to me a lot as a productivity trainer: Executives want me to teach their team time management tips and techniques to help them be more productive. But, in talking to them, it becomes...
(2 minute read, 30 minute podcast) Leaders are responsible for both their own productivity and for productivity in the workplace. Recently, I had the chance to talk about both aspects of productivity with Kevin Eikenberry of "The Remarkable Leadership Podcast." Kevin...
Time management is an outdated concept, and many of the traditional "tips" aren't relevant for the 21st century. One typical piece of “time management” advice that is contrary to effective task management is to try to estimate on your to-do list how long each task...
Several months ago I wrote an article about productivity and time management tools (also called PIMs for "personal information managers"), and I ended that by writing, "the process is the missing piece to using any tool successfully." The most important element of...
You may be surprised to learn that there is really no such thing as mentally multitasking. The human brain can only hold one conscious thought at a time. Common use of the word “multi-task” actually has two distinct meanings. The first is physically doing two things...
