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This is the fourth in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
Ambitious people, like the people I coach, and probably you, juggle loads of projects and tasks for work and their personal lives. Many have some kind of system,...
This is the third in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
Your email isn't a to-do list!
If you've followed the latest and ever-evolving thinking in personal productivity the way I have, you may have seen or heard that...
This is the second in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
If you've ever had a personal productivity system, has your list of tasks, to-dos, or whatever you call them ever grown so long that it's become unmanageable?...
This is the first in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
You've probably tried at least a few (or more) apps and approaches designed to help you manage your important projects and tasks. And based on my experience as a coach...
In this multi-part series on networking strategy, I've written about the key insights I picked up as an executive recruiter at a top 20 firm.
Recruiters are, by necessity, professional networkers. They need to get it right. And while you're not a professional networker, you need to get it right,...
Networking can be scary.
And it can be hard to know where to start. It can be even harder to keep your networking going and then keep up with it.
In this series on networking strategy, I’ve tried to reduce your stress levels by sharing perspective I gained as a recruiter at a...
Guilt is a great motivator. You eat a cookie. You feel guilty. You go to the gym.
It’s not like I’m speaking from personal experience.
Guilt is also a great demotivator. Especially when it comes to networking. So many people I’ve worked with as a career and...
Fear of reaching out to people you might not know so well (or at all) isn’t the only thing that can keep you from getting started on your networking for a job or your career in general. Even if you’ve gotten over the fear part, the thought of what it will take just to get started can...
If you’ve been following this series on networking strategy, whether it’s for a job or your career in general, we’ve gotten to the point in the process where at least a few people have said “yes” to a conversation with you.
That’s great, but I think we...
In the previous post in this series, I made the case for networking towards a community of people as opposed to a specific job or company.
This post offers insight I picked up as an executive recruiter that should increase the number of people in that community who respond to your outreach with a...
