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Keeping your focus on the road to breakthrough results.

One of the questions I ask clients when we’re talking about making plans for important initiatives in their business is: If this initiative fails, who gets yelled at? Who loses their job if you don’t make progress on this? It might be a negative way to think about it. But I’ve found that if there…

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How do you hold time for your most important priorities?

On Saturday, I wrote about my client who filled his calendar all day, every day with meetings. Not meetings in which he got to do the thing he loves — meetings to cover administriva, operations meetings, places where he had to make decisions about things that he wasn’t an expert in.  He had resolved many…

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Is there something you are dreading in the office today? 

What are you dreading about your day or week in the office? These things are like little rocks in your shoe.  They aren’t crises, just annoyances, right?  You tolerate them for a while — some you become callused to and stop noticing them — others build up until you can’t stand it anymore.  But if…