Complete your cycles: Multi-Tasking is a Pyramid Scheme

1 December, 2014

Listen, we all need to drop the fallacy of multi-tasking. It does not work. Multi-tasking reduces productivity by diminishing focus. Cycles (tasks) need to be completed. Don’t start a task that you can’t finish. Don’t set a task that can’t be done in the time provided. Don’t start on another task wh...

Accountability is the best policy

26 November, 2014

The best teams are those where accountability is the coin of the realm. When team members are responsible for what they say and do we can get rid of the “fly-ball” errors where all three go for the ball and none of them catch it. Task ambiguity is every team’s worst enemy. Real accountability requir...