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JULY 8, 2012

This is a guest post by Jessica Edmondson We’ve all been there – that moment when accomplishing a set of daily goals seems about as likely as winning the lottery while vacationing on the sunny shores of the French Riviera. Truth is, every morning there are a thousand obstacles just waiting to keep you from accomplishing what’s really important.

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JANUARY 23, 2016

Years of business and focus on productivity - trying to get more done in less time has caused me to lose my attention span. Technology has been a huge contributor. Emails, cell phones, social media all contribute to "short" interactions and many of them. This is not all good.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

The Leadership Pipeline - How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan , Steve Drotter and Jim Noel was awesome. Ive authored a Time Leadership Audio CD, book and eBook ; "How to use the Secrets of Leadership for Time Management".email It is a must read for any aspiring leader at any level. I am CEO between positions.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

It looked great: Learn how to read maps. Learn how to use a compass. Learn how to make an emergency lean to. Learn how to start a fire without matches. Now I am thinking it looks perfect then: Learn how to cook a hotdog over a fire.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

“I am always doing what I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it&# - Pablo Picasso Categories: About The Book Daily Guest Post FTC Notice – conflicts of interest Latest Articles Motivational Business Quotations Time Leadership Audio CD Your days seem to get busier and longer.

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OCTOBER 11, 2013

One of my friends, Nicky Billou wrote a book - Finish Line Thinking - How to Think Like a Champion. It''s the science of how to think and win like a champion. I know Nicky to be creative, driven and a real person. From the dust cover: Champions engage in what author and high performance guru Nicky Billou calls Finish Line ThinkingTM.

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APRIL 3, 2017

A friend then asked me how to keep leadership ego in check: “Leadership ego is what kills most companies.” In my last post, I spoke about leadership ego.

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APRIL 3, 2017

A friend then asked me how to keep leadership ego in check: “Leadership ego is what kills most companies.” In my last post, I spoke about leadership ego.

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APRIL 22, 2018

It then goes through each principle – explaining what is meant and giving examples of how to apply it. The book is inspiring me to figure out how to get all of Danby thinking along the same lines.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

I read a great book by Barry Libert - " Social Nation - How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees and Grow Your Business ". Part 3 is how to get started. Part 3 has a chapter on "How to get started and 10 pitfalls to avoid". I certainly have a lot to be thankful for. I lead a charmed life.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Perhaps I should author a book "Persist like a weed - how to keep growing despite setbacks". + It is also interesting how people are attached to the status quo already so object when changes are made as reported in this article. Trying to figure out how to make a Danby Appliance trend. ++ People do what they see other people do.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I love buying things, figuring out how to add value and then figuring out how to sell them. I am also a bit of a critic - always thinking "how could they do it smarter". I am keenly aware that a $50,000 idea is too small for Danby to do. At heart, I am a marketer and a merchant or trader (no - not a traitor).

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

I am worried the current track will create lots of work for accounting firms on how to work around paying 73% tax so in the end, the government will not get the 73% anyways. Saves getting the Canadian system too far out of sync with the US. Saves Canada from increasing tax complexity. Sorry to the accountants out there.

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APRIL 17, 2013

His company has done extensive research and come up with tools on how to measure individual values and beliefs and company values and beliefs. Explains why it is a rule and how to live and thrive with is. He has impressive statistics on the success of companies that are high alignment compared to others. Each chapter covers one rule.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

And since Browder's company had money, they figured out how to steal it and use it to embezzle over $200,000,000 from the Russian government. From the book: "The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep at night" (Wonder why I never eat sausages?) He was wildly successful in a dangerous environment.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

98% of it was about psychology and how to think logically. I want to know how to slide down a chimney and get no soot on me. From Pain to Profit - Secrets of a Peak Performance Trader. A self published book (so I found typos). Suggested to me by my friend that runs BloomBoss. Interesting book. Twas the Night Before Christmas.

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MAY 16, 2016

Given the environment, it makes sense to study more how to be trusted. I love the habit but as a time management person struggle with how to do this well. He said (paraphrased) "CEOs and business people are not trusted and not as important as we like to think". He was speaking to a room of CEOs and business people.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

Like all new years, today is the first day of the rest of your life so you can choose how to use it. So of course, I try to figure out how to have more success and this is the conclusion I reached: Self discipline is linked to energy levels. We all know how to live healthy. Happy New Year! 2016 is here.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The book goes on to talk about now only how to discover them but how to harness them. It is full of hints and tricks. Some of the best ones are the obvious ones like "do the work", "click less to connect more", "make the uncomfortable your new comfortable" etc.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Solve the problem but also figure out how to make it so no one else has the same problem. Closed loop refers to the loop of customer service (comes from calls, emails, chats, social media, reviews and actual products returned). See the last blog post. Most people know my dislike for complex language.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It is much more powerful to ask how to double sales than how to increase them by 6% because asking for a 6% increase can cause no fundamental change - just doing things a bit better. I am also an advocate of asking "how" rather than "why". I am also an advocate of asking "how" rather than "why".

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

It discusses how to invest in relationships to make them work better. Part three was about transforming relationships and how to change them over time and how to reframe them. I particularly like the third chapter that talked about perspective in relationships. The second part talks about strength in relationships.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It has a ton of practical ideas on how to listen well. It includes such things as how to be tactful. It has 3 sections - 1 - Listening - clearly a key management skill. 2 - Asking. A well thought out question can definitely guide someone in the right direction. 3 - Suggesting.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

One of the books was " The Synergist - how to Lead Your team to Predictable Success " by Les McKeown. This is a book one how companies succeed. It explains some of the dysfunctions and also how to overcome them. It pulls it all together into how to implement. I did take a break and read a few books. Great book.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

I also think great marketers should be great writers so should know how to use the words we have. I previously wrote about how to improve Klout. I read a great book - Social Marketology - Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever. Klout is trying to measure this. There is still a long way to go.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I did an interview where I spoke of my business optimism called How to Own the Future. ++ I read with interest an article on Tech Crunch about Linkedins success. My most popular article of all time remains " How to write an Article in 20 Minutes " posted by Jim Estill @ 6:38 AM 1 Comments: At 3:27 AM , J.D. Meier said.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Eliminating these points and figuring out how to make them smoother can add efficiency. And I like the How question to be fairly big. EG - if you ask a sales person how they can increase sales by 5%, they do not think of changing process, they just think they will work a bit harder/better. 3 - Interaction Friction.

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MARCH 31, 2018

Some rules and secrets on how to deal with things: 1 - You have no money. I have found it very difficult to know what to advise - all start ups are different. And by nature - entrepreneurship is uncertain and there is no one right answer. What if the office needs vacuuming? You vacuum it. What if you do not have a vacuum at the office?

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APRIL 10, 2016

How do you climb a mountain? How to write an article in 20 minutes ". One step at a time. + I have rarely had an article go viral. I republished one that I wrote many years ago on my linkedin that did. Over 1,000,000 views. " A friend is solving the Guelph housing problem and needs tenants. Website gives details. +

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Safe by Accident is more of a hands on manual with practical ideas on how to really make safety work. The book emphasizes the appropriate use of technology, how to use positive reinforcement, and talks about why incentives should not be based on incident rates but shoud be based on behavior. I am CEO between positions.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I read " The Great Workplace - How to Build It, How to Keep It and Why it Matters " by Michael Burchell and Jennifer Robin. And not my company but I have been asked to help with a Leadership Survey. Click to help with that. I was interested to read in the Globe that only insane people are entrepreneurs.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I read Self Leadership - How to Become a More Successful, Efficient, and Effective Leader from the Inside Out by Andrew Bryant and Ana Kazan. I liked the suggestions on how to improve self discipline. If you cannot lead yourself, who can you lead? The title says it all - seems like what most leaders would want.

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JULY 21, 2011

I read a book by Anne Bruce, Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont called " Solving Employee Performance Problems - How to Spot Problems Early, Take Appropriate Action and Bring Out the Best In Everyone ". Often performance is a result of lack of understanding of how to do the job well. People by nature are complex.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

I am thinking about how to get more from life with gamification. I have a game I sometimes play when trying to get through "volume" work like clearing emails, cleaning, etc. I estimate the time to complete and try to beat it. A simple To Do list can be a type of game. It suits one of the rules in time management around procrastination.

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

Each chapter then elaborates individually on each item on the chart with how to ideas. EG 10 tips for Picking Up Defining What to Do and Letting Go of Telling How to Do It. It attacks these problems with a table which lists things to do and things to drop to move to the next level. This is something I have always practiced.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Chester then writes about how to move employees to the Valued quadrant by techniques like find your style, develop trust, value tact and timing, tell stories and cast a vision. I have blogged previously on How to Deal with Email Volume. Sad that 3 of the 4 quadrants seem negative). Banning it. And they are a tech company.

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JULY 19, 2015

Deliver us from Email" This was a funny line in " The Secret of Invincibility: How to Thrive in Any Situation " by Paul Pearsall. So I am looking at how to improve my email habits. "Forgive us our trespasses. Studies have shown email can reduce IQ to the same extent as smoking pot. And to be fast.

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