When I trained as an accountant in the early 1980’s Just In Time (JIT) was put forward as the efficient way of doing things. Get what you needed delivered as you needed it and not a moment earlier. This cut down on inventory and all the associated costs and freed…
Normally the OSKAR method is used for coaching, and I believe it to be a very effective way of helping your clients. However, it can also be used to set objectives and help you achieve them. Here’s how using the OSKAR method to set effective objectives could be of use…
There’s an old saying “time is money” but it’s not true. You see time is so much more valuable than money. If you lose money or waste it then there are loads of things you can do to earn it back. However, time is different, once it’s gone, it’s gone…
Too many people don’t know the difference and if you try to pretend you are one when you are really the other then that is a recipe for disaster. Even worse if you think you are both. Trust me, I’ve tried and it doesn’t work. So, are you an entrepreneur…
Coming from a qualified accountant you may find the above statement somewhat surprising. We looked at this topic before in Why Effective Leaders Don’t Use Accounts To Make Decisions and it’s time to look again. Let’s see why accounts are not effective. All the old-fashioned banks would disagree with me. If…
The trouble with so many “leaders” is that they are so busy trying to lead others that they forget to lead themselves. The founder of VISA Dee Hock has stated that if you want to be a leader then you should invest at least 40% of your time in leading…
The alternative to life is death, not work. We don’t talk about leisure / life balance, family / life balance, sleep / life balance or anything else / life balance so why work / life balance? Work is something we spend or don’t spend part of our lives doing. It…
Whatever you are doing right now is your priority. If you get up in the morning, check your blood pressure, go for a run or workout in the gym, return home and eat a healthy breakfast then your morning priority is health. If you get up and immediately view social…
Before reading this blog, you should make sure that you have read the one from yesterday Releasing Time To Be Effective in order to understand where we are going with this. Today we need to consider how to plan to effectively release time. You can’t create time, but you can release…
Everyone needs to be a leader in order to be effective. Even if you only have a team of one (you). If you don’t have time then you can’t lead, if you can’t lead you can’t be effective. All the time we hear or say, “I just don’t have the…