A Little Pick Me Up
With all the gloom and doom we’re surrounded with these days, this video clip from Harley Davidson should provide you a little encouragment: Screw it, let’s ride.
The Productivity Family Tree
Sanborn Associates here posting an interesting mention on “Uncle” Mark made by Mike St. Pierre writing at LifeHack.org: Mike had some fun with the whole family tree paradigm and created a family tree consisting of the top productivity bloggers on the internet (according to his criteria). This is what he says about Mark: The Rich…
DetailsWhat Do You Know that Ain’t So?
James Cagney never said “You dirty rat” in any of his films. Nor did Humphrey Bogart say “Play it again, Sam” in the movie Casablanca. The Caesar salad isn’t named after Julius Caesar. It was named for its creator, Caesar Gardini who first prepared it in his restaurant in Mexico. The cashew isn’t technically a…
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If you are truly leading, you are truly learning. If you aren’t learning much, you aren’t leading very effectively. I am working on an article for a friend’s ebook. The focus will be on “what I wish I had known about leadership at the beginning.” Here’s an insight learned over many years of leading: “How…
DetailsDoes Being Ethical Pay?
That is the focus of The Journal Report in today’s WSJ. The section provides some interesting insights into the dollars and cents of ethical behavior. Such questions, however, miss the point: if ethical behavior didn’t pay, should it be abandoned? What’s the alternative? I know business professionals are interested in the implications of ethical behavior,…
DetailsThe Exhaustion Cure
My friend Laura Stack (“The Productivity Pro”) has a new book coming out this week called The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days! It’s packed with ideas and worth checking out if your want to get more done and feel better doing it. Click the link (or image) to…
Details12 Keys to Increasing Personal Productivity … While Adding More Balance to Your Life
Leadership Lessons ezine by Mark Sanborn
DetailsSpinning the Spin
Today a well-known baseball player under scrutiny for alleged steroid use (which he denies in the face of some substantial evidence) also denied beginning an affair with a well-know country western star when she was only 15 (which she did not confirm but rather said she could not deny). Said athlete admitted that he had…
DetailsThe Joy of Waking Up
I am blessed. I awoke this morning in my home, healthy and with food and water. 22,000+ victims of the cyclone in Myanmar did not wake up today. Tens of thousands more did wake up wondering if they could find food and water and perhaps contemplating if they’d ever have a home again. To say…
DetailsBeware of Brevity
Aristotle believed in the golden mean, the midway point between too little and too much of anything. Just as wordiness is too much, sometimes brevity can be too little. If you find yourself defending your brief communications, the clue phone is ringing for you. Recently a friend was justifiably incensed by something he read online.…
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