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In MOR’s several Leaders Programs, we routinely talk about the need for everyone to set aside time on a regular basis for reflection, for work on strategic projects, and for planning. In today’s reading "An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day", Peter Bregman proposes a very structured plan for planning and thus for gaining control of your day.
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Steve Jobs died last Wednesday.
Since then, tens of thousands of words of tribute and remembrance have been written along with other similar expressions for this man who on one hand was very human – "much more ... a real person than most people knew" (Dr. Dean Ornish) – with a tremendous love for his wife and children, and on the other was an innovator, likely the greatest innovator who has lived or will live in our time.
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Over the past several weeks I’ve seen many reviews of Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer’s new book “ The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.” Today’s reading “How Small Wins Unleash Creativity” from Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge is a summary of that book.*
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By selecting this article for today’s Tuesday Reading, I’m not suggesting that you should be out looking for a job. Rather, given the author, Steve Tobak, who has extensive experience on both sides of the hiring desk, I thought that his piece “What Hiring Managers Really Look For” was excellent advice for the hiring manager.
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You may have run across the term “decision fatigue” in your recent reading. John Tierney in a lengthy NYTimes article “Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?” writes:
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I think we are all micromanagers at heart. This week’s reading is a short piece by John Baldoni, “Get Involved without Being a Micromanager: 3 Tips” which recently appeared in BNET’s leadership blog.
We all dive deeply into the details; sometimes when we are the only one with the necessary skills and expertise. But, more often it’s counterproductive and even harmful. And, too often we do so when we need to feel that we are personally making a difference.
Baldoni provides three guidelines to help us decide when to dive in:
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I first saw reference to an E-mail Charter in Davig Pogue's NYTimes column "We Have to Fix Email"on June 30, 2011. In the column Pogue calls attention to the email overload that we all are experiencing almost every day in real time.
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Today’s Reading, “Go Ahead, Take That Break”, comes from Whitney Johnson’s HBR Blog. Johnson is a founding partner of Rose Park Advisors (Clayton M. Christensen’s investment firm), and is author of the forthcoming book “Done-Dream-Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream.”
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Today’s reading is a short piece by Jeff Haden, “One Small Step for You – One Giant Leap for Employees”. Haden learned much of what he knows about management as he worked his way up the printing business from forklift driver to manager of a 250-employee book plant. The rest he picked up from ghost writing books for some of the smartest CEOs he knows in business.
In the article, Hayden provides two short personal stories of bosses he has had congratulating him on his work.
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Today’s reading is the Schumpeter* column “Too much information”, from the July 2, 2011 issue of The Economist.
The column notes that “information overload is one of the biggest irritations of modern life." The author goes on to note that the ”data fog“ is thickening at the time when workers are compelled to take on additional tasks. Many don’t see this situation changing even when the economy improves.
The result is three big worries:
