Monthly Archive for December, 2011

Verbal Vomit

Being exponential, I am always fascinated by how people abuse jargon and terminology to confuse and muddle their messages. Jargon consists of technical terminology that makes perfect sense to your colleagues and co-workers but is annoying, useless and even confusing to outsiders like your clients, prospects and suspects. The #1 culprits are politicians who babble […]

Time Management Tip: The 1 Touch Rule

Back in the days before the Internet, there was a time management concept I heard about called the “1 Touch Rule”. Simply stated, it meant that when a paper came into your IN Tray (or on your desk), you were supposed to deal with it the FIRST time you touched it, hence the name – […]

Get More Done By Doing Less

I know what you’re thinking… This is just another motivational play on words. It’s not. I mean it, I’m dead serious. This is one of the most important time management lessons I learned early on in my career. When I got out of university and the whole world lay in front of me and my […]