Have you heard of people declaring email bankruptcy, wiping out their mailbox and emailing everyone in their address book that they are starting over? Or what about the people who have boldly declared they are no longer using email? It is tempting. Both of these rather severe reactions seem somewhat reasonable given how much we have come to disdain managing the ever increasing flood and time demands of email. There are three tools I want to share with you that I use to manage all of my personal and business email in less than an hour a day. For those who have been following my blog for long, you know I am not interested in this to be a productivity or technology junkie. I try to be more productive and leverage the best technology so I have more time for the things ever increasing demands on our time crowd out: white…
Last Spring, my wife and I attended Donald Miller’s Storyline conference in Nashville, TN. After reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years together, we began to evaluate…
Let’s say there are two companies you are considering investing in and that besides the differences described below they are identical: Company X: exceptional products, marketing and execution…
How would your employees respond if you told them you were going to help them achieve their personal dreams? How would you respond if fulfilling a dream pulled a…
We have a natural aversion to being naked. We love to wear clothing fashioned from our many strengths, accomplishments and victories. We shy away from exposing our weaknesses…
Are you struggling with your team consistently delivering the right sales or service experience to your customers? How do you feel about how your vendors are treated and…
Pursuing customers is common sense for any business. Without profitable customers, a business cannot exist, but customers cannot be acquired overnight. Everyone knows it takes a lot of…
Feeling overwhelmed, anxious or stressed about all your tasks at work or home? A simple and surprisingly therapeutic solution is to take a few moments and write everything down. I promise it’ll…
First off, let me be upfront that I’m often guilty of running late, so what I share here comes from self evaluation. I have committed to solving the…
