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Experiments with Time – Being Intentional with My Days

How time away from work gave me fresh perspective on my calendar, my goals, and how I manage my day.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Productivity Specialist

Eisenhower's rules for categorizing tasks has me focusing on getting the right things done in a timely way, but also has me thinking about my goals.

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Measuring Work – Email Sent and Received

The amount of email handled seems to correlate with my levels of busyness. I decided to count email as a way of measuring work that I do.

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Learn the Stages of Sales & Become a Better Sales Person

Understanding the stages is the first step toward addressing your weaknesses and improving your strengths.

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Why Consultants Should Read ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’

It's extremely difficult get to a win-win scenario or just have a serious productive discussion without having trust and respect in place.

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Software Leadership Lessons from Youth Sports

On talent, goals, and tactics — in sports and in your software company.

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Gmail Filters for unattended-upgrades Reboots

Getting tired of seeing emails from unattended-upgrades? Here's how I configured Gmail to separate the signal from the noise.

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Know Thyself: Identify & Understand your Personality Quirks

Work better with others by knowing your personality quirk triggers, how to deal with them, and how those quirks affect different people in different ways.

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3 Ways to Reduce Big Meeting Stress

Fight your meeting anxiety with smarter meeting prep—embrace it, clearly communicate your message, and find success.

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Visualize Your Spreadsheet Data with Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting is a useful feature for analyzing spreadsheets. Here I introduce it and provide some examples.

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Super Cheap Data Backups with Amazon Glacier Storage

How to download all your Google data and back it up extremely cheaply with Amazon Glacier Storage.

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Practice, Perfection, and Holding out for More Marshmallows

Googling quick answers is great, as far as it goes. But consistent, persistent practice is still the best way to learn something deeply and comprehensively.

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