Better on Demand
A list focused on ways leaders and managers can plan more effectively.
Your company's success depends on having more meetings. I'm assuming that's not what you wanted to hear. My general stance on meetings is that in most cases, they aren't necessary and an email detailing the information you want to convey will suffice. So, why do I want you to have 25 more meetings each year?
Still staring at that blinking cursor on your blank screen? Here's how to get past it. madame_furie/Flickr Tweet Few things are as daunting as a blank page, a report you need to write, or a pitch you need to create.
Question: Any advice on how to "make myself" (or entice myself to) sit down and do the things that are less easy to do given my bias toward creation v. completion? David Allen's answer: Read Charles Duhigg's book, The Power of Habit , about habit change.
"I guard my time fiercely and without apology," says Gary Keller, author of The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (Bard Press, 2013). He uses a technique called time blocking,in which he dedicates several hours to a single task, to help strengthen focus and eliminate distraction.
Project management is as necessary a skill for anyone in agile business as is the ability to collaborate without getting HR involved. We're working in a world dependent on transparency, shared responsibility, and autonomy, and the truth is? We're all project managers now.
There's a growing appreciation among executives that the returns from big data are real indeed. But that doesn't make moving forward any easier. The investment, both in dollars and management commitment, can be large. CIOs stress the need to entirely remake data architecture and applications.
