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Entrepreneurs Suffer Success Allergy
Entrepreneurs success allergy? How can that be? Success is a concept, not something you eat, drink, wear or come into a physical contact with. Even so, it does appear that a large number of entrepreneurs just may be allergic to success. Perhaps, not in the sense that you have a physical presentation like a rash, stuffy nose, watery eyes, swelling or inflammation when you come in contact with success. An allergic reaction to success is much more subtle.

Great at Multitasking? Well, That’s a Bummer!
Some wear it like a badge, others are visibly overwhelmed. Multitasking, they feel, is a necessary component of being competitive and in touch in today’s world. In fact, it is quite the opposite... and much, much worse. Here’s why.
What’s in Your Files? Putting Good Ideas to Use Can Help Your Creative Juice
Every couple of months I look at my idea and information files because I want to actually use the information I've put aside. I'm almost paperless, so my dual purpose here is to use it or lose it. If I don't at least look at it from time to time, then I won't know whether or not now is the time to be putting some of those great ideas to work. These are the sparks for future action and creativity. I call it ‘information inspiration.' Here are three action steps you can take to put your idea files to good use:
What You Learned in 5th Grade is All You Need to Know to Stay Productive at Work
Here are four simple steps that Heidi uses with her kids, which remind us that being productive at work is something you already learned how to do back in grade school. So get back to basics when you want to get things done and reach your goals.
What NOT To Do: 3 Things You Must Avoid If You Want To Become More Productive and More Successful
Sometimes, I'll hear some fantastic habits and great practices. However, unfortunately, over the years I've heard too many people say a few things to me that are actually bad habits and are not supportive of true organization or productivity. Because I consistently hear these, I thought I would pluck three from the list and expand on why they are NOT the best approach. You may want to avoid these in 2009 (and forevermore) and try a new approach and see what happens to your productivity. You'll likely be pleasantly surprised...
INFORMATION WANTED… DEAD OR ALIVE How to Escape Captivity from Habits That Hurt Your Productivity
Using the suggested practices I've listed below, you can free yourself from the wall of information rising high around you and you won't have to be a victim of a wild office or a wild work day. You can put your useful information to good use and let go of the rest, freeing you to get back to your priorities with a clear mind and a clear desk.
Tired of Meetings? 5 Essential Steps to Make Your Meetings the Most Productive They Can Be
Here are the top 5 things you can do to get better results and outcomes from your meetings and use your meeting time most productively.
Social Distractions: How Wasted Time Costs You Money and Business & How to Get It All Back
Earlier in the year I received an e-mail from a client containing a funny article called "Study Finds that Working at Work Improves Productivity." I found it again on the Internet as well. Not only did I find this article to be refreshingly funny, but no matter how fake and satirical it was, it probably hit the mark on how professionals may be actually spending a lot of their day. I thought this would be a good time to talk about how important it is to actually be working while you're at work.

Too Much or Not Enough: How to Eliminate the 5 Biggest Time Wasters in Your Day
My client's time wasters may not be the same as yours, but here are the top 5 I typically find that must be eliminated before you can get more time in your day.

Rescue Missions for Saving Time from Your Inbox & Other Dangerous Thieves
Don't let time slip away to unsuspecting culprits. They're sneaky and dangerous. And when you start to feel the effects of lost time and you're unhappy, unsettled and unproductive, it's time to try something different. Here are 4 rescue missions to put into operation so you can save more time:
So Now What? Maintaining Work Day Productivity in a Life after Getting Organized
Here are five things to remember to do every day so that your systems stick around and support you for a long time to come.

The Song “Finish What Ya Started” Reminds Me to Be a Broken Record: Get Your “Incompletes” Completed Before You Get Pulled Away
I put together a list of 6 sources of to-dos that you can review and consolidate into a single, cohesive Task list, electronically of course. Close the door, turn off your cell, send callers to voice mail, don't look at e-mail and get off of the Internet.

Are you a “Paper Person?” Consider an Electronic To Do List
For those of you who still use paper for a to do list, like pads of paper, a planner, post-it notes, or maybe you use your memory entirely, consider making a change to an electronic to do list. It doesn't have to be in Outlook. It can be in Palm or Entourage or Lotus Notes. Outlook, in my opinion, happens to be the best and most powerful, but a good task management system is workable in other software systems too. Here are the 3 best reasons to start using an electronic to do list:
Are You Holding a Fire Hose Instead of a Golf Club? 4 Starter Steps for Using Outlook Tasks to Give You More Control, More Freedom and Less Stress
Why do I love Outlook so much? Because it's one of the easiest, most familiar and most powerful tools out there. Plus, it's commonly found in the majority of companies and corporations these days, as well as many of the offices of solo-preneurs. This makes it easy for us to work together because clients don't have to run out and get new software. They already have the tools they need. Sadly, they're just not using it to full capacity. Here are my 4 favorite starter steps for how to use Outlook Tasks:

Tried and True: 12 Time-Tested Productivity Tips that Never Go Out of Style
So here are my Top 12 Time-Tested Productivity Tips for you so I can reinforce my message about reaching for and achieving peak productivity. Take a look... Are you practicing all of these? Which ones work best for you? Do you have 3 or 4 favorites? Let me know what you like and be sure send me an e-mail at Leslie@ProductiveDay.com.
Release Your Reading! How to Let It GO and Still Read What You Need
Well, it's true that the information river will not stop flowing, but there IS a way out of the river. In order to avoid getting swept away, you need to either read like mad or let it go and start fresh. Do a combination of these and you may get through it all, depending on how much you have to read. Here are 5 things you can do to FREE yourself from your reading pile and still get what you want and what you nee
Productive Day Proverbs: Little Pearls of Wisdom to Keep You Out of Productivity Peril
I've put together a short list of 6 proverbs that effectively express commonplace truths about your office and your work day productivity. There are actually 5 more proverbs to come later this year. But we'll start with these 6. If you follow the advice in both the proverb and my connection to your productivity, then I know you can stay on top of your game, be in total control and put your work day on cruise control at peak productivity.

Taking the Cus out of Customer Service: Why Ask Why?
Why ask why? It engages customers to think rather than wait. Like a rock laced with gold, raw feedback needs to be refined. We don't want to appease demanding customers…we want to figure them out. There's pain in work. We all have some symptoms. We all have some points. True customer service is a two-way road: discovering the problem together and working on a solution together.

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Leadership and people versus task
Over the years there has been discussion on the leadership issue of people versus task. What exactly was the balance, when should the leader be concerned about people and when about task, and what is the difference between these two sorts of activity. The OPD model does not eliminate this distinction between people versus task, but it does give it clear and definite focus.

Can you simply grow out of trouble?
While it is important that revenue growth and margins are given enough attention, they are really the responsibility of the operating management. Also, the operating management must be equally charged with task of ensuring proper cash flows. At the board and CEO level, the focus must clearly be on things such as –markets and sustainability of business logic, market size & growth in market size, quality of its balance sheet, product or services portfolio, brand building, innovation, leadership development, and process culture. CEO and his management team must develop and implement strategies addressing these areas.
Outsource Your Accounts Receivable Management With Factoring
One of the biggest business trends of the past 20 to 30 years has been the move toward outsourcing. Companies usually decide to outsource functions that aren't part of their core competencies, or in other words, those that don't lie at the heart of their ability to manufacture a product or deliver a service. One particularly time-consuming task that gobbles up untold hours of many employees' time is the management and collection of accounts receivable (A/R). By outsourcing their A/R through factoring, businesses can help employees spend less time on this non-core task and more time doing things that help differentiate themselves from their competitors and make a real difference for their customers.

The Seventh Commandment of Leadership-Self Management and Relationship Power
The most difficult person that you will manage in your leadership career is you. That is a very hard statement to get your hands around and grasp but managing yourself is a very challenging task. Without good self-management, the delicate balance between leader and follower is jeopardized. You can loose credibility. You can damage relationships. You can completely become irrelevant. First, a little background on self management. Self management is half of the science of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence tells us that eighty percent of our reactions, responses and projections are driven by emotion and not by logic or processed thought.
Problems of Growth
When an organisation needs more money, the issue is a little more complex than sometimes is realised. In this article, Douglas Long suggests some leadership questions to accompany the management task of keeping the business viable.
Team Management for your New Business
Although forming an organized and responsive team for a small business may look like a daunting task, a few essentials and guidelines can make team management quite simple.
Fine Tuning Your Presentation Skills
In management, you are expected to have reasonable presentation skills. There a a few simple things you can do that will make the whole task a lot easier.
Staring Down The Change Elephant - Just Letting Go!
The single biggest reason for the failure of organizational changes is that no one has thought about endings! When changing things for the future many people forget they must let go of some things in the past or present. While the first task of change management is to understand the desired future, the first task of transition management is to convince people (maybe yourself) that you have to leave the past behind.

Spirituality - The Hub of Our Daily Life
"It is just as if a king sent you to the country to carry out a specific task. If you go and accomplish a hundred other tasks, but do not perform that particular task, then it is as though you performed nothing at all. So, everyone comes into this world for a particular task, and that is their purpose. If they do not perform it, then they will have done nothing." Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) mystical poet of Islam. What is the task that the mystical poet, Rumi, is suggesting? What is it that we must fulfill or our lives will have been a waste of time?
Making Money vs. Earning Money
There has never been a money shortage. There is, from time to time, an idea, inspiration, motivation, or creativity shortage. This shortage may manifest itself in the lack of money. It's important to realize that the only people who make money work at the mint. Everyone else earns money. There is a fair exchange between what an individual does and what he is paid for completing that task. The pay for a task increases as its degree of difficulty, danger, expertise, or the amount of training required increases. There are many jobs that you could be trained to do and be in a position to accomplish the required task by the end of the first day. In most cases, these jobs do not pay particularly well. On the other hand, if you wish to be a neurosurgeon-while you will not be performing the task by the end of the first day-at the point you ha
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