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Recently, during one of our Life of *E*’s Email Extravaganza’s, one of our members wrote (and her questions are in dark type):  I am dying…I have lost my way in the jungle. [MEMc] This is a horrible feeling and I am so sorry. And, now you can start to find your way out. Until you [...]

Lencioni, Patrick. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business. First of all, what a great title! As someone who has endured hundreds…no, make that thousands…of meetings that were deadly, the title caught my eye immediately. The content did not let me down. Lencioni’s “fable” books (e.g., The Five [...]

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Here are five more ways to be proactive about keeping chaos at bay. Implement the following ideas to avoid letting the telephone “steal” your time: Use caller ID. If calls are coming through that are “unknown”, then you can feel better about not picking up the phone. Put your number on “Do Not Call” registries. This works [...]

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Implement the following ideas to avoid letting the telephone “steal” your time (and of course, it’s not the “telephone” that is stealing your time, now is it?) Don’t answer the phone. If you are doing something that has your attention, don’t pick up the phone. Let your machine or voice mail pick it up. We [...]

Tags: interrruptions, telephone, time thieves

OMG!  I love this idea.  It fits right in with my idea of setting my timer for 30 minutes for LOTS of my projects, but I love how this is explained. I first read about it in Daphne Gray-Grant’s column in www.MyFavoriteThesaurus.com’s daily e-magazine.  She recommended this fabulous blog post…  …and also let readers know [...]

Jay, Joelle. The Inner Edge: The 10 Practices of Personal Leadership This may be my favorite book of 2009 – and on into 2010.  WOW!  Dr. Joelle Jay is a master coach who has worked with executives around the country.  The insights and wisdom she has provides in this book, along with the tools available [...]

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