management
Time Block Planning is a simple concept of using a calendar view to plan your day's priorities, including both meetings and other work you'll prioritize. Many people have written about it for a long time, and powerful in its simplicity to force prioritization, so you'
investing
The Acquired podcast is fascinating. I heard about them recently from a Cal Newport blog post about their growth, and I'm glad I found them. The Acquired podcast deep dives into the stories of companies, after doing a huge amount of research, so it gives you great broad
career
I've heard a few different ways to think about ways your career can progress that are valuable mental models. These models are helpful, whether you want to climb the ladder or if you want to be intentional at focusing on a certain stage. For example, when I was
leadership
I was recently at a charity dinner (Wellspring Group was celebrating their 20th anniversary) and was chatting with someone about leadership models, and he mentioned the Predictable Success Leadership Styles, which I hadn't heard of before, but is such a powerful way to think about people's
leadership
It's tempting when you're talking about an big initiative, or individual tasks to list a few names of people who will advance something. But something I learned many times, especially during the high-growth times at Halfaker and Associates, is that responsibilities need exactly one owner. When
leadership
When you're welcoming a new team member, make it easy for them to quickly get up to speed. It's tempting to think that you are so busy that you don't have time to welcome them well, but that's a high-risk maneuver, as
leadership
Interviewing candidates effectively is so hard -- you only get a few hours to determine if this person has the right skills, experience, temperament, cultural alignment, leadership style, etc. to fit into this specific role in your organization. A few tips about structuring the interview event: * Schedule sufficient time, such
lessons-learned
It's easy to look at email as something that you have to keep up with, so you can get back to work, but so much actual work gets done in email (and so much potential working time is taken away by email wrangling). If you think about emails
leadership
Fundamental, tactical skills like email management, schedule/calendar management, and making documents and presentations are sometimes overlooked by leaders when they consider how to keep their teams aligned. If things aren't running smoothly, there's value in reflecting on these fundamentals, both for yourself (Are these tactical,
lessons-learned
Here are some random concepts/frameworks for great time management: 1. Build your own personal productivity system so that you keep track of action items/tasks/to dos/ongoing responsibilities/etc. 1. Consider investing time in reading books like David Allen's Getting Things Done, which walks through some