July 2010

You Think You’re Communicating?

July 22, 2010

Why is communication so difficult? It should be easy. We start learning to communicate as soon as we’re born. We cry when we want food, warmth, cleaning, security, sleep. Then we begin to learn words and body language. How is it then, that when we are fully grown and educated we still can’t communicate very [...]

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The Urgent is the Enemy of the Important – How to Win The Battle

July 10, 2010

An undervalued truth is that the urgent is the enemy of the important. Think about that for a minute. Urgent chokes out the important Urgent is firefighting, important is building and improving Urgent is a cost center, important reduces costs or increases revenues Urgent is reactive, important is proactive Urgent is stressful, important is managed [...]

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