This post could equally be called, “How a random comment on Facebook help me increase my reading productivity by 100%”
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In our efforts to achieve work-life balance, we all accept a bit of work bleeding into our non-work lives. But how does this vary with seniority?
We’ve all got lists of things to do that could go off the page, and the next, and possibly the next.
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”. This lovely quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights a common trap that many managers step into.
This is the first post in a series about tools we find useful (and think you will too) because they just make work easier. Mostly, they’re quite simple – which is probably why they make work easier, not more complicated.
We like tools that are simple to use. We’ve built that into our 360 feedback and [...]
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip – guest post from Paul Matthews.
You may have heard of NLP which is an acronym for the rather cumbersome “Neuro-Linguistic Programming”.
NLP at its core focuses on how people who do things very well, actually do them. From this study of excellence, some ideas have grown within NLP circles [...]
Saatchi and Saatchi think a lot about sustainability. I’ve followed Kevin Roberts’ posts for some time and they do some cool work in this space. Recently I found this video on his blog and although its really about sustainability in a ’save the world’ way, it got me thinking about it in a different context.
It’s [...]
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip – guest post from Paul Matthews.
Much of management involves managing processes, so when you map out and then improve those processes, your life will be much easier.
Before you actually start examining a process, you need to make sure that everyone understands whether you are mapping ‘as is’ or ’should be’.
In [...]
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip – guest post from Paul Matthews.
There is a deluge of information coming at us from all directions, and much of it involves reading.
You need to maximise your reading efficiency to deal with all this information effectively, and get what you need from it.
There are some simple things you [...]
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip
Project Management sounds like a big deal, but actually, anything you do that is outside your ordinary day-to-day activities is a project.
And because projects are unusual and different, they get noticed. Managing a project well, even a small one, will make a big difference in how you are seen as a [...]