I know from experience that one of the things I’m really good at is retaining control over how much I do, what I do and when I do it.
This was true even when I held a senior corporate job. My colleagues would look at me with envy (or was it anger….) when I left the [...]

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Here’s a news flash we didn’t need a survey to tell us - the way we set up our systems and processes results in lots of time wasted at work in non-value added work like administration. No surprises there for anyone who has spent time in a company of any kind.
But how much time [...]

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The desire to reduce the duration and number of useless, time-wasting meeting is - I believe - universal. Earlier this week the Financial Review reported on a European survey that found:
“long and pointless meetings are the main cause of office rage”
And if people look like they are paying attention in meetings, they are equally as [...]

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Getting things done through others is an organisational reality. But what should the corporate warrior do when other employees fail to live up to expectations? That is they either don’t deliver in a reasonable time frame, or perhaps they don’t deliver at all. We’ve all heard that one before:
I can’t help you - it’s not [...]

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