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Executive Information Systems, Belly Fat & Your Garage

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Executive Information Systems, Belly Fat & Your Garage

Dashboards can be invaluable, power points can have a life span measured in minutes, but they both really reflect just the surface of your system for managing information.   In business, some people call such a system an “Executive Information System” (EIS), but actually we all have and use some type of system for managing or getting the most value out of information we’re in contact with.  But here’s the interesting wrinkle, your ability to improve your system may be strongly impaired ...

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MAY
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Why you Shouldn’t Use Excel & Online Spreadsheets

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Why you Shouldn’t Use Excel & Online Spreadsheets

Let me give you 4 reasons why using spreadsheets is a bad idea, actually a
really expensive bad idea at your place of work. And I’m writing this as
someone who has sat in too many meetings where spreadsheets are the
primary tool for displaying and tracking data and status.   What I’m talking
about is using spreadsheets as primarily a table…   because its easier to
work in, than use the tables in Word or some other application.

Let me give you a ...

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Feedback – the Gift to Yourself

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Feedback.  Has anyone told you, it pays to be good at giving and receiving it?
Consider yourself so informed ;)    Actually being good at feedback is a gift
to yourself, even better than being lucky when you look inside.  So if you
haven’t been overwhelmed with luck lately, keep reading I have something
good to share with you.

Being good at giving feedback, both positive and challenging is something
that just makes life work better, not to mention ...

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FEB
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Losing Touch with Value in Management

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Does part of what you do for a living involve managing people?  Do you get
things done through coordinating the effort of others?  If this is you,
do you know how you create value? That came out wrong,
let me ask it this way, “Are you sure you create value by what you do?”

I know, maybe it sounds like a dumb question, but a majority of the people
in management I interface with actually don’t know ...

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JUL
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You and Time Leaks

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Imagine for a moment, that everytime you filled up your car’s gas tank, you
knew that it would leak out 20%.  20% of what you put in, would be wasted.
Would you accept that?  No, of course not.  But guess what, you are already
operating with a much higher leakage when it comes to return on your time,
and… drum roll… don’t even think about it.  Maybe you should… think about it,
that is.  Keep reading and I’ll explain.

Time leaks.  Think about it as the process ...

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APR
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Do You Have Work Alzheimers?

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I was riding with my parent this weekend who has Alzheimer’s. Clearly
she has difficulty integrating new information, due to forgetting or not
assimilating recent events that would change her world view.  Furthermore
she locks in her world view by retelling her world view supporting stories
over and over again, partly because she’s lost the ability to engage, to listen
and inquire. 

Her world view starts to look like it’s guarded by the Great Wall of China.
And then I thought, boy ...

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MAR
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Quiet… it’s 2012

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Hey, if your week has been anything like mine, it’s been jammed
packed with stuff.  Lots of final prep for efforts to get launched this
year that weren’t quite ready for show time on Jan. 3rd.  But I bet it
didn’t contain one commodity which you and I need, probably more
than ever this year - QUIET.  Keep reading, I’ll share the surprising
reason why.

An article in 2008 on “Why You Need Quiet Time“  covered some of
the health ...

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JAN
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Progress, ManagePro & Sins of Omission

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Yesterday was one of those days, not a bad day at all.  Just one of
those days when several points of reality line up and “bonk” you
over the head, saying “So… What About This?”  So a quick
blog about best intentions, confronting reality and our aversions.

Well, actually here’s the 15 second sound byte first.
      On the road to improvement,Â
      we encounter what we are adverse to address, Â
      yet it turns out that addressing what we wish to avoid
      … is key ...

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21
OCT
2

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Focus, Effectiveness & Guarding What’s First in Your Brain

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Last week’s blog suggesting you actively take charge of managing the
internal conversation and focusing process in your head, got me thinking
about the role of what is first or top of mind.  That led to marketing, the
advertised perils of “multi-tasking” and how it all works like a manual
transmission and a card deck in our brain.  Ready for this?  Stay with me,

I think I can give you a couple of valuable tips by the time we wrap up.
By-the-way, have you ever ...

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AUG
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Project Management – Accountable to Working Smart

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Project management, Accountable, Work Smart. I woke up this morning, with one of those ah-ha moments, where your brain has been chewing on something while you sleep, and you get to review the results when you awake. And for me those three pieces of the puzzle all came together in a simple, nimble gestalt.

Here’s how the pieces go together for me, in 4 simple statements:

1. Project management is nothing more than being accountable to work smart.
2. Working Smart is ...

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