25th September 2009
"A confident person doesn't tell you that they're confident."
This is going to be a tricky article to write because the last thing I want to do is come across as arrogant, or as though I know everything. How do I show you my confidence without being ar...
25th September 2009
"Confidence is knowledge of yourself."
Here's my definition of confidence, which leads to how you can build your confidence: "Confidence is knowledge of yourself". When you have done something well a hundred times you have built knowledge in your abili...
25th September 2009
"The hard part is making sure what you said was truly concise, direct and understood as you intended."
This may be a silly question, but have you ever talked to a dummy? I'm talking about a real dummy, like the ones used to display clothing. You can tr...
25th September 2009
"Actually, my entire company is getting more done because I work fewer hours."
Busy. It's a word I find myself using quite often and have been using for a long time. I'm ready to change that word to: Productive. For the past four years I have been work...
25th September 2009
"My days FLY by and suddenly the week is over like it never started."
I’m wondering how fast a person can go in their business and in their daily activities. Since implementing some of the suggestions in the “Four-Hour-Workweek” book, I find that...
23rd September 2009
"Am I hiring him to do what I say or to let him do what he says?"
My role as President at Efficient Technology Inc is to empower my team to do their best work. While in college I often heard people say “hire people who are smarter than yourself”. S...
23rd September 2009
"Recognize that you too are going through the changes and may be having the same reactions everyone else is – you are human after all."
My company is going through amazing changes as we grow, evolve our product mix and enhance service delivery. Altho...
23rd September 2009
"I'm sure you’ll be surprised by what you can learn from an intern."
You might not realize it yet, but you NEED an intern. I’m sure some of you have an assistant or someone in your office that helps with administrative tasks, but there’s a lot mo...
23rd September 2009
"That means over 1,200 trees were used in order to run a program that only lasted a few days."
By most accounts, the Cash For Clunkers government program was a big success. The government funded the exchange of over 690,000 vehicles and the claimed imp...
23rd September 2009
"...no time is wasted beating around the bush, playing charades around price or leaving the customer feeling like prey who haplessly wandered onto a car lot."
Typically, I write about concepts and use examples to highlight them, but in this case I want...
07th September 2009
The term paperless was first introduced in a 1975 Newsweek article called “The Office Of The Future” published June 30, 1975 which touted the concept of a fully automated office without paper. It seems that instead of eliminating paper we actually hav...
03rd September 2009
"Or, the cost of automating the last 20% of your process will cost you four times as much as the first 80%!"
I remember being told as a kid that the year 2010 would bring about the flying car, teleportation devices and the paperless office. While I did...
