Why You Should Never Schedule Anything at the Top of the Hour
As you probably know, a top productivity tip and regular habit of mine, is to write my to do list the night before. I don’t have to stick to that schedule exactly, but it gives me a path to follow. However I’ve noticed they make one key mistake – they schedule tasks for the top of the hour. Many of the highly-productive people I know do the same thing. What’s wrong with that? The problem is two fold… read more at listproducer.com
9 Tips to Help You Strengthen Your Integrity
Learn how to take the high ground—because integrity is a core value essential to trustworthiness. If you ask company executives to reveal their “core values,” integrity is always one of their first answers, says Joel C. The single most important ingredient to business success is trust, Peterson says, and trust starts with integrity. Entrepreneur and angel investor Amy Rees Anderson borrows from C.S. Lewis’s famous quote, defining integrity as “doing the right thing all the time, even when no one is looking—especially when no one is looking.” Read more…
Everyone Thinks Entrepreneurs Make Bad Employees, but That’s Completely Wrong
Why are entrepreneurs bad employees? They’re not. Entrepreneurs are usually the very best employees. It is actually the opposite, most companies are really bad employers of super talented and entrepreneurial people. Most companies cannot cope with the top 1% and they end up losing their most talented people. Entrepreneurial employees cannot be micromanaged. They will not last in an organization that gives them a very short leash. Which means if a company wants these types of employees to thrive, it needs to have a clear strategy and then let its employees go out and execute. Read more…
You’re Probably Biased at Work. Here’s How to Stop It
Everyone suffers from bias, despite their best intentions. Recently, a trio of researchers used sensors to see if they could distinguish any differences in day-to-day behavior between male and female employees. Their goal was to eliminate the type of bias that can occur in self-reported polls about behavior. Recently, a trio of researchers used sensors to see if they could distinguish any differences in day-to-day behavior between male and female employees. Their goal was to eliminate the type of bias that can occur in self-reported polls about behavior. Read more at entrepreneur.com…