Marketing is Magic

  Marketing is Magic:  A Lesson for Systems Thinkers People who are systems thinkers often can’t figure out why others “don’t get it.”  To this category of thinker, many problems stem from root causes; fixing anything but the root cause doesn’t solve the problem.  They go slow to go fast.  Sometimes they end up in […]

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Are Relentless Interruptions Killing Your Productivity?

Five Sneaky Culprits in the Workplace That Scuttle Deep Work and Three Solutions You have a presentation due in three weeks, and you’ve developed a project plan and scheduled time to get it done.  You know you need uninterrupted time every day to perform at an exceptional professional level.  This work will move the organization […]

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8 Ways People Give Power Away and What They Can Do About It

8-4-17 Been thinking a lot about power and influence, and what it represents in the variety of relationships we attend to at home, in the community, and at work. For many years, I had shied away from these concepts – they seemed arrogant and sinister to me and at odds with “who I was” until […]

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