Achieve better results by doing the opposite
Getting home It was a rainy Thursday evening in October. As I approached the westbound Docklands Light Railway platform, I realised it was stacked 6 layers of commuters thick -…
Yin and yang and metrics
If you are striving for high performance – be it for your business or a personal competency, you should be interested in tracking metrics that indicate if changes need to…
How to waste a colleague’s time with email
Email is still a useful way to communicate, but it's also one of the easiest ways to be take out a small chunk of someone's day. Most people, including me, have…
Perfectionism vs. productivity
I often attempt to carry out tasks ‘perfectly’: making a cup of coffee, the elocution of a phrase in a foreign language, selecting a new laptop (or pretty much any…