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Synergy: The Force Behind Ultimate Success or Failure

Ever wonder why certain businesses thrive? Or how certain people achieve unthinkable success? What about how businesses built with the...

The Process Maven

Aug 8, 20177 min read

6 Steps to Handling a Workaholic Boss with Unrealistic Time Demands

If you've read my recent post about "How a 47-Hour Work Week Turns into 7 Years of Free Labor", you have a deeper appreciation for...

The Process Maven

Aug 1, 20176 min read

The One Simple Thing That's Keeping You From Being Successful

Successful people inspire us. We study them intensely, we write books about them, we read articles about the "14 things every successful...

The Process Maven

Jul 25, 20176 min read

Why Settle for $1,000 When You Could Have $1,000,000?

Why do we settle for less than the optimum we are capable of getting? In business, in personal finances, in life? For business and finance

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Jul 18, 20175 min read

How a 47-Hour Work Week Turns into 7 Years of Free Labor

Do even the smallest amount of research and you'll find article after article describing how Americans work the longest hours of any...

Jul 11, 20173 min read

The Fine Art of Prioritizing

As you move through your day, expertly "multi-tasking" and juggling a hundred different priorities, how focused do you feel on each task?...

The Process Maven

Jul 7, 20177 min read

Value-Based Thinking

Today I want to share one of the secrets to effective prioritizing - what I call "Value-Based Thinking". Mastering this sort of thinking...

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Jul 5, 20177 min read

Inhibitors to Change: Part 3

Today we finish our 3-part series discussing and evaluating the 15 inhibitors to change presented in Marshall Goldsmith's "Triggers". ...

The Process Maven

Jun 26, 20175 min read

Inhibitors to Change - Part 2

Today we continue our discussion on Marshall Goldsmith's 15 inhibitors to change, from his book "Triggers". 6. "I won't get tired and my...

The Process Maven

Jun 13, 20172 min read

Inhibitors to Change - Part 1

Is this how you feel about creating lasting positive change in yourself and in your behaviors? I feel that way sometimes too... Recently...

The Process Maven

May 29, 20173 min read

4 Keys to Building Outstanding Work Timelines

Let me start by asking you this question: Would you rather have your best employees firefighting countless daily issues that arise from a...

The Process Maven

May 15, 20172 min read

Beating Stress & Career Burnout

Careers have ebbs and flows to them, similar to a river which may have points of peaceful flow through a springtime valley dotted with...

The Process Maven

May 1, 20172 min read

Mastering Inbox Clutter

Sometimes keeping your e-mail inbox under control can seem like wrestling with a hungry grizzly bear with only your bare hands...you just...

The Process Maven

Apr 17, 20172 min read

Choosing Business Process Automation Software

In my last post, I described the benefits and approaches behind business process automation (BPA). If utilized correctly, these tools...

The Process Maven

Apr 4, 20172 min read

Business Process Automation

Business process automation is used slightly by some, but mastered by very few. Businesses tend to only really dig in on efficiency when...

The Process Maven

Mar 21, 20171 min read

Career Myths That Are Holding You Back

Virtually everyone has advice to give. Do this, do that, absolute musts. Advice is all good and well, but not all advice is good advice...

The Process Maven

Mar 13, 20172 min read

10 Signs of a Broken Process

Take a look around. Broken processes are everywhere. They are inefficient and ineffective at accomplishing their end goal. This...

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Feb 27, 20172 min read

Bullseye Communication

If a small business owner opens a new restaurant, but tells no one it is there, how will he get customers? Hope they walk by? He will...

The Process Maven

Feb 13, 20171 min read

Chocolate Chip Cookies and Orchestra Directors

You may be wondering how chocolate chip cookies could possibly relate to an orchestra director, or how those two even remotely pertain to...

The Process Maven

Jan 30, 20171 min read

Recycling is Bad

Recycling is bad. You heard me. It's BAD. Now, before you start writing down my name to report to the city managers or to blast on...

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Jan 16, 20171 min read