Your Surprise Secret Weapon for Success: Work Your Week


It’s easy to trick yourself into thinking there’s never enough time to get things done – especially the most important things in your life. But the most successful people and teams do find the time. They do something that most other people don’t: They know how to work their ...

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Channelling Chaos


The old rules of goal setting, productivity and time management don’t work. Our goals become meaningless when the environment changes, it’s difficult to stay productive when we’re constantly interrupted, globally dispersed teams make in-person meetings impractical, and the 9-to-5 workday just...

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Next Level Productivity – Five New Moves For Our Fast-Changing World


When the Institute for the Future looked to identify the key skills for the future workplace, they knew those skills would not be technical, task-oriented skills – because those skills will become obsolete through automation and artificial intelligence. Instead, the most future-proof skills will ...

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Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World


My dietitian friend and client Julie Meek helps busy executives and leaders maintain their health, fitness and energy. This is an important issue for these leaders, because they often have chaotic, unpredictable lifestyles, so it’s difficult for them to get into a routine of regular meals, reg...

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Think Project, Not Goal


When the Institute of the Future identified ten key skills for the future workforce, one of the most important in the list is what they call “Cognitive Load Management”. This is what we used to call time management, and has expanded over time to include concepts such as productivity, go...

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The End of Busy


Stop using “busy” as a badge of honour! You might think you’re Superman, Supermum, The World’s Greatest Consultant, or whatever else – but nobody else cares. You might be proudly displaying your Busyness Badge, but other people pity you for it. Sure, there was a time w...

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Don’t Set Goals – Set a Theme


At the start of the year, you’ll see, hear and read plenty of advice about setting your 12-month goals. The trouble with this advice is that twelve months is a long time now! Our world is changing so fast that in twelve months, motivations change, unexpected obstacles occur, and even the reaso...

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Innovation Kick Start 2016


I have some ambitious goals for 2016, and I hope you do as well. In this episode, we look at how to get your business fit for the future, how to set goals that you can actually achieve, and how to kick-start 2016 with innovative ideas for your business. Listen To the Episode Watch a webinar version...

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The Future of Conferences


With videoconferencing, online meetings, telepresence and other collaboration technology gaining traction, does that mean the in-person conference is obsolete? No – not by a long way! But its role has changed. Here are 10 trends affecting our professional and personal lives, and how conference or...

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Want to Be More Productive? Go With The Flow


Max Levchin, a 39-year-old father of two, is a manager at a Silicon Valley technology start-up company. Like many others in San Francisco, he starts his day checking e-mail from home, followed by breakfast and a treadmill run, and then turns up to work at 8am. The office is buzzing with people at t...

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