As we quickly work our way through the summer months, have you been tempted to take a day off just to enjoy the beautiful weather or go on a spontaneous jaunt?  If so, you are not alone.
39% of workers admitted they have called to take a sick day during summer vacation time (Harris Interactive for [...]

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According to Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn, job losses due to increased productivity greatly outnumber those lost to globalization.  That is certainly a far cry from the typical lament that says we can protect our workers by keeping jobs at home.
In Greenwald’s and Kahn’s book, “Globalization:  The Irrational Fear That Someone in China Will Take [...]

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It is almost chic to say you hardly have time to sleep, but that is not a good advertisement for your effectiveness.  Many of us are functioning with a huge sleep debt.  If you are a business owner or manager, it is to your advantage to have employees who get enough hours of shut-eye each [...]

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Employers encouraging their employees to take breaks for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube?  Is it possible?
The University of Melbourne sponsored a study by Brent Coker, from their department of management and marketing, claiming that the above listed breaks help sharpen concentration.  The study went so far as to say that people using the Internet for personal [...]

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I recently received a request to review the book, “Work the System:  The Simple Mechanics of Working Less and Making More” by Sam Carpenter.  He presented the strategies that he used when transitioning his company from a ‘job’ to a ‘business’–the job being one where he overworked by many hours a week to the business that [...]

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If you struggle with the motivation to get started on a good organizational regimen, just look skyward about 370 miles.  That is where the Hubble Space Telescope orbits, circling Earth once every 97 minutes. 
Back in the early 1990’s, the misalignment by Hubble engineers of one mirror’s lens by 1/50th of a human hair ended up [...]

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“Is mine the worst you’ve ever seen?”
This is a common question when I first enter an office.  For anyone with pockets of disorganization in their lives, they feel both embarrassed and anxious.  One of the most rewarding parts of my work as a time management trainer and organizational consultant is the resultant exhilaration people experience when [...]

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In implementing new systems, you have to ask yourself:

Does it work for me?
Will I do it?

Does it seem to you that the second question would logically be incorporated into the first?  After all, if it works for you, why wouldn’t you do it?  Yet how many time do you know that something would be good [...]

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We tend to blame others when we can’t concentrate on a project, and there’s some validity in that.  After all, the average business person is interrupted about every three minutes.  Interruptions commonly stem from the telephone, email, or a colleague.  These are easy to pinpoint, but there is another one to add to that list.  [...]

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I was contacted recently about a new book called “The No Complaining Rule” by Jon Gordon, and I felt this would be a good suggestion for any office or personal setting to adapt.  The following is an excerpt from a review: 
“The fact is every leader and business will face negativity, energy vampires and obstacles to define [...]

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