I'm excited to share that I was recently interviewed for WNYC's Money Talking by host Charlie Herman. Charlie's team found me through an article I wrote for the Harvard Business Review that got a lot of attention. It was really a commentary about our always-on...
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Business Email Etiquette in Harvard Business Review
In my work with hundreds of companies and thousands of people in the last 12+ years, I recognized an issue with regard to corporate communication; specifically business email etiquette. The pace and timing of email can have a damaging affect on productivity and on the...
Tips for Recovering from a Business Trip
Travel Tips That Work for Vacation, Too I was recently approached by Entrepreneur Magazine to write an article about getting back into the swing after a mid-week business trip. I discussed how to quickly catch up on email (learn about my "Four Pass Technique"),...
3 Steps to Quickly Catching Up on Email After Vacation
“Conventional Wisdom” when it comes to vacations has two big problems: People skip vacation altogether with the rationalization that it would just mean working twice as hard before and after, so it’s not worth it. (43% of Americans don’t take all of their vacation...
How to Make the Most of Your Holiday Weekend (Or Any Vacation)
If you’re planning a vacation from work, here is a quick and easy suggestion for making the most of your time off. It’s scandalous. Blasphemous. Heresy. Your first thought will be, “I can’t possibly do that.” Trust me. You can, and if you do, you’ll realize what...
Tip for Effective Attention Management: Take a vacation
(A version of this article was recently published in the Austin Business Journal. Below I’ll cover some of the high points of that piece.) Think you don’t have time to take a vacation? Think you can’t afford it? Think again. Recent studies make a convincing argument...
Productive Traveling Tips
It seems like periodically in my career, I turn into a temporary and intermittent Road Warrior. There are certain times when lots of travel is necessary. Given my line of work, with every trip I try to notice what I can do to wring a little more productivity out of...
Top 6 Tips for Fighting Holiday Stress
In addition to managing stress by being in control of the details of your life, yesterday we had the first half of a guest post from Dr. Harvey Kitzman, explaining exactly what stress does and how it affects us. Below he shares his top 6 easy and inexpensive ways to...
How Stress Hurts
I think the best way to deal with the stress of our busy lives is to be in CONTROL over the details, having everything out of your head where you can see it and manage it effectively. That’s why I teach people the Empowered Productivity System, to turn chaos into...
