Perspectives
5 Second Leadership Lesson
Before we get to our 5 Second Leadership lesson, you need to watch Father Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4 Our 5 Second Leadership lesson to complement this is: Set and achieve measurable objectives. Care for your...
Use it or lose it
I thought of using the term Brain Plasticity in the title to this blog but since I didn't understand the term I figured 'Use it or Lose it' would be a better way to go. But then that's the point isn't it? If you want to retain something you've learned, you have to use...
Seven Times Principle
Did you ever wonder why your teachers told you to study early and often for a test? Well it turns out that there may be something to it. You're actually better off distributing your practise on anything rather than trying to learn something by cramming. The problem is...
Please write this down!
Do you ever wonder why, if you write it down, you tend to learn something better? There's some biology behind it. (Today's science lesson is brought to you by the letter B.) When you write something down, it stimulates a bunch of cells called the Reticular Activating...
Will this be on the test?
Do you remember the one person in the class who, when presented with something a little out of the ordinary, would ask the prof: will this be on the test? Think now to the answer. If it was not going to be on the test, would you bother learning it or even bother...
Why we hate meetings
I think I've finally figured out why we hate meetings so much and how we got here. Let's go back to the industrial economy for a second. Leadership in the industrial economy was pretty simple. You looked after process and the process got you results. Life was pretty...
Your meeting challenge
Since I can't get away from the topic of meetings I might as well give in and continue in the same vein. In answering a reply to Monday's post I had a brain wave (or maybe it was a brain fart.) Whatever. In any case, I wondered what would happen if we just eliminated...
Meetings make you stupid (according to the research)
I hadn't intended on focussing on meetings this week but I got two replies to Monday's post and thought I should at least weight in with some useless research on meetings. I found an article in the Telegraph that says it all. "Meetings make people stupid because they...
Why are Meetings?
It struck me coming out of several meetings in the last few days that we usually seem to book meetings for an hour. Why is that? Why do meetings seem to take an hour, no matter what the issue is? Surely there are some things that can be dealt with in a shorter time...