70% of Time Could Be Used Better - How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day
Really practical advice, not just for CEOs, but for managers and anyone else who wants to get shit done.
If great managers seem scarce, it’s because the talent required to be one is rare. Gallup finds that great managers have the following talents:
- They motivate every singleemployee to take action and engage them with a compelling mission and vision.
- They have the assertiveness to drive outcomes and the ability to overcome adversity and resistance.
- They create a culture of clear accountability.
- They build relationships that create trust, open dialogue, and full transparency.
- They make decisions that are based on productivity, not politics.
Solidarity and decency depend on a dense tissue of connection among people, on long-formed habits of the heart, on resilient cultures of common citizenship, and on leaders who marshal these virtues by their example.
Data from Endeavour Partners indicates that fitness trackers are no more sticky than new year’s resolutions.
Bad design makes it out into the World not through malicious intent but through no intent at all.
A short film on Mike Langley, sign painter, for Vassilaros & Sons Coffee Co. From The Portland Egotist:
The attention to detail and steadiness of sign painting work blows our mind. You get that sense here in a very small dose, but if you have a chance be sure to check out Sign Painters because it will give you a respect and a healthy dose of inspiration for this unique section of the typographic fields.
(via John Boardley)
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What's Ahead: The Information Age Transition
What’s Ahead: The Information Age Transition
As promised (threatened?) I am going to use Continuations to think out loud about what I believe is the beginning of a transition away from an industrial age to an information age. I know those terms aren’t perfect but that will be part of the discussion itself.
Terrific read.
The Record Collector (by Matt Ingebretson)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
One common concern of parents these days is that children grow up too fast. But sometimes it seems as if children don’t get the space to grow up at all; they just become adept at mimicking the habits of adulthood. As Hart’s research shows, children used to gradually take on responsibilities, year by year. They crossed the road, went to the store; eventually some of them got small neighborhood jobs. Their pride was wrapped up in competence and independence, which grew as they tried and mastered activities they hadn’t known how to do the previous year. But these days, middle-class children, at least, skip these milestones. They spend a lot of time in the company of adults, so they can talk and think like them, but they never build up the confidence to be truly independent and self-reliant.