9 Simple Rules for Spending Less Time in Meetings
...First and foremost, value other people's time...
Hiring Children In The Family Business For Tax (And Other) Benefits
...In fact, while hiring a child may not seem like a top-of-mind move for many businesses owners, if you play by the rules, there can be a surprisingly broad array of tax (and other) benefits to doing so...
16 highly successful executives share the one thing they do every day to stay on top
...5. Actively remove distractions...
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
...Of the many paths to success, none can be walked alone. A support network is crucial both at and outside work...
Go Fast and Break Things: The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions
...If a decision is reversible, we can make it fast and without perfect information. If a decision is irreversible, we had better slow down the decision-making process and ensure that we consider ample information and understand the problem as thoroughly as we can...
What to Change When You Move Into a New Place
...The second thing you should do is reset your garage door openers so they forget all the old remotes...
New Neuroscience Reveals 9 Rituals That Will Make You An Amazing Parent
...Here’s how neuroscience can help you be an amazing parent...
How to Provide Great Feedback When You’re Not In Charge
...In the end, what we really want to do as leaders, whether we’re technically in a leadership position or not, is to create an environment where feedback is shared in a helpful and useful way. The best way to do that besides giving great feedback is volunteering to take some as well...
Busy is not the point
...Points for successful prioritization. Points for efficiency and productivity. Points for doing work that matters...
The Bed of Procrustes — 20 Aphorisms from Nassim Taleb
...The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking...
Thinking About Thinking: Tiny Changes, Big Results
...There is no get-smarter-quick plan. Acquiring wisdom, is hard work...
Why Should You Save?
...Achieving your long-term financial goals depends on two separate, yet complementary skills: fiscal discipline and investment discipline. Fiscal discipline means saving or otherwise gathering capital to invest, whereas investment discipline involves building a portfolio and managing risk in order to reach your investment goals...
Keep The Degree Of Difficulty Down
...When, ten years later, you look back at what you and the team accomplished, it may well look like a reverse triple somersault with two twists in pike, and it will have been exactly that, and you will have won the prize too. But you will have done it by doing the easier things perfectly thousands of times instead of the hard thing just once...
Understanding Speed and Velocity: Saying “NO” to the Non-Essential
...Velocity and speed are different things. Speed is the distance traveled over time. I can run around in circles with a lot of speed and cover several miles that way, but I’m not getting anywhere. Velocity measures displacement. It’s direction-aware...
Inertia: The Force That Holds the Universe Together
...Inertia is a pervasive, problematic force. It’s the pull that keeps us clinging to old ways and prevents us from trying new things. But as we have seen, it is also a necessary one. Without it, the universe would collapse. Inertia is what enables us to maintain patterns of functioning, maintain relationships, and get through the day without questioning everything...
The Indispensable Document for the Modern Manager
...The goal of a user guide is to set blindingly clear expectations on how to collaborate without extra second guessing...
The Fear of Losing It All
...people’s brains function differently when they perceive or anticipate scarcity...
5 Questions to Ask When Starting a New Job
...The actions you take during your first few months in a new job have a major impact on your success or failure...
Making the Most of Second Chances
...To figure out where else you should build margins of safety into your life, think of the times you’ve been terrified and desperate. Those might be good places to start learning from experience and making the most of your second chances...
The Best Coffee in Every State
...For the best Ohio morning ever, in any weather, stop at Heartwood Coffee Roastery in Cleveland-adjacent Hudson, then disappear onto the trails of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, next door...
