If you’re not going to be able to give something your all, I believe it’s better to admit it up front and figure out another way to address it. The alternative — sliding into that passive grey zone of mechanical execution — is depressing.
The subtle challenges of taking your eye off the ball

- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Leadership, Self Management
Evaporation

- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Self Management
On a monthly basis, I spend a day on strategy and planning for the following 30 days. I map out my priorities – my “quadrant 2”, important-but-not-as-urgent tasks that I want to make sure receive the proper attention in the busyness of the days ahead. But what exactly is “proper attention”?
Clarifying Buckets

- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Effective Communication, Leadership, Self Management
So the calendar works for me, but like most of us, I don’t work in a vacuum; the core team at Actionable is 11 people. That’s 10 other busy people who I now really needed/wanted to work around my calendar choices. What do you do?
Triggering New Year’s

- Posted by: Chris Taylor
- Category: Innovative Thinking, Self Management
One of the fringe benefits of relocating on a regular basis is that the new environment provides a natural opportunity to reset. To get deliberate about how we craft our days, and where we focus our energies. This is not unlike, I’m appreciating, the habitual setting of “New Year’s Resolutions” that so many of us…
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