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Book Report: Will There Be Donuts?
Tagged with: curiosity, David Pearl, meetings, nearly meeting, productivity, Trevor Manuel, virtual meetings, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
What keeps me up at night, as a B2B technology marketer
I worry that we’re overlooking opportunities in other markets. Perhaps our products and solutions are well-suited to markets we’ve never explored. I recently tweeted out an article I found that talks about What B2B CMOs Will Face Tomorrow. That article…
Tagged with: B2B, CMO, Golden Rule of Leadership, lead scoring, marketing automation, Marketo, productivity, return on effort, return on energy, teams, worries
Posted in Leadership, Management, Marketing
Posted in Leadership, Management, Marketing
Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) Better
“Better” is what it’s all about, ultimately: doing your job more effectively, so you can make the biggest possible positive impact.
Tagged with: better, clarity, content, effectiveness, focus, impact, productivity, storytelling
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) Faster
The same approach applies to most tasks in the workplace: you can dawdle and let a task take as long as you want to give/waste, to fill your day, or you can blast through it in the shortest time possible.
Tagged with: effectiveness, faster, impact, John Wooden, productivity
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) More
You should request, look for, and create more opportunities and projects. If you’re truly committed, then to do more you’re going to need to work more as well: get in early, stay late, pop in on weekends, work from home.
Tagged with: effectiveness, hobbies, impact, more, practice, productivity, skills, volunteering
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Increase your Effectiveness with these Three Strategies
“How can I be more effective?” and “How can I get better at X?” are questions I get asked from time-to-time. I’ve at least somewhat addressed the first question before, and now it’s time to visit the second. Let’s say you want…
Tagged with: better, effectiveness, faster, impact, more, productivity, strategies
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Maximize Your Impact: Work on Things That Matter Most
You can exhaust yourself just keeping up with your inbox, and you won’t make a big difference. [This post is part of a series on increasing your effective productivity. The introductory post is My Strategies for Maximizing Impact] In the first…
My Strategies for Maximizing Impact
I’ve had a lot of conversations lately about productivity. The conversations have started in a few different ways (e.g., “How can we get the biggest return on marketing?”, “I’m having trouble deciding what to work on.”, “I have too much on…
Tagged with: impact, productivity, strategies, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
The perks of getting to the office early
I work in an office that has flexible hours, so we have comings and goings at a wide variety of times. Most people do your standard 9-5:30, but some stroll in just before lunch and stick around well into the…
The Seating Plan Shuffle
Recently, my team moved to a different location in the office. On paper, this has two major benefits: We are now closer to the Product Management team I am no longer the closest person to the door, so I no…
Tagged with: luck, productivity, randomness, seating plans, synergy, Underpants Gnomes
Posted in Everything, Management
Posted in Everything, Management
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