How to Teach Others to Get Things Done
Have you ever worked with a person who never remembers what they need to do? Some things get done, but some never do. They don?t follow through on what they?ve promised to you or to others on the team. So as the leader, you are left managing their responsibilities, as well as your own. This […]
Two Essential Strategies for Taming an Unruly Calendar
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Launch, Then Improve
I would like to issue a challenge to you today: Whatever you are trying to create, whatever you keep editing and refining, whatever you keep working on ?one more time? to make perfect? Go ahead and launch.?Improve later! Launching Is Winning Some may disagree. They may say, ?Imagine if Apple launched and produced millions of […]
Enough Is Enough: We Must Create Margins
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How To Organize Your Life
As leaders, we are inundated with?appointments, to-do lists, notes to take, deadlines to meet, emergencies that come up, clients to see, and meetings to conduct. If you do not?have systems in place by which to organize yourself, you will quickly become scattered and disorderly. I want to share with you a simple system which helps […]
How I Learned to Get Over Myself and Just Delegate
[blockquote text=’This is a guest post written by Andria Bicknell. Andria is a contributing writer and editor for Aspire. She writes about recovering from the effects of perfectionism on her own blog,?Type A Plans B. Andria draws her leadership experience from ministry, business and home. – Wes Saade, M.D.’ text_color=’#ffffff’ width=’95’ line_height=’undefined’ background_color=’#aaaaaa’ border_color=’#dba400′ show_quote_icon=’no’ […]
How To Discuss?Not Argue?The Issues
Most discussions I see follow a traditionally confrontational approach, more akin to a wrestling match than a civil exchange of ideas. I believe there is a better way to talk with one another than to constantly battle and defend our positions. If you would like to have more productive verbal exchanges with others, you may […]
How to Get Things Done
I am not a doer by nature. I am a thinker and a perfectionist. Left to my natural devices, I like to contemplate matters to the nth degree before I execute them.?As a leader, I have had to grow in this area. I want to share with you one of the most important lessons I […]
Be More Effective?Discover Your Input:Output:Outcome Ratio
As leaders, we all want to be more effective in any process, organization, or team that we lead. Many times we work so hard, but seem to go nowhere. Allow me to share with you the input:output:outcome principle which I believe will help you to be more effective.? Input = Your Investment For me to […]
Aim to Have Disciplines, Not to Be Disciplined
Most of us usually cringe at the idea of being disciplined. We have images of that Cr?me Brulee that we really, really want. But we know we really, really shouldn?t. Despite the mounting guilt, we order it and eat it anyway. And we tell ourselves, ?I wish I were more disciplined.? There is a better […]