Tim Milburn

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One Tool To Manage Your Greatest Asset

Tim Milburn

The best tool I’ve found to manage my time is the calendar. Accessibility is important because you need to use and manage your calendar on a daily basis. I manage my calendar based on three primary views: • Daily. When you lead yourself well, you make the most of your time. One calendar. Quarterly.

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7 Ways To Tweak Your Time Management

Tim Milburn

When it comes to time management, the easiest question is to ask: What time is it? Time may be a fixed entity, but managing it is not an exact science. You can go up to most any stranger on the street and ask that question and he or she will have some idea at a good answer. The harder question is this: What will I do with my time?

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The Best Baseball Managers Are Leaders

Tim Milburn

If you spend any time at all in the study of leadership, you will come across the manager vs. leader debate. Perhaps the most famous of remarks about this is from Peter Drucker who said, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.&#. One example of this is the baseball manager.

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Ten Important Lessons From Peter Drucker

Tim Milburn

He left a wealth of knowledge and keen insight in the areas of management and leadership. In fact, some might say that Peter Drucker and management are synonymous. Long recognized as the “father of modern management,” Forbes once called him the most perceptive observer of the American scene since Alexis de Tocqueville.

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Self-Discipline Isn’t Convenient

Tim Milburn

What’s difficult is keeping and managing that commitment. We make a decision and then manage that decision to accomplish something that we wouldn’t normally be able to accomplish without the focused effort that comes through self-discipline. It’s not all that difficult to make a commitment.

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A System For Rapid Realignment

Tim Milburn

And because the pace of change is swift, management must respond with equal speed — that is, with rapid realignment. To make the most of an alignment program, we recommend a dedicated Web portal through which people can access the information they need, and the messages that management want to get out. A chat room.

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Five Online Communities To Strengthen Your Productivity Skills

Tim Milburn

Project management is a skill every leader needs. Basecamp is an online community where you can effectively manage projects from the development stage through the final product. Whether you’re managing a group of people, or managing details of your own life, you need a way to keep track of things. Where to turn though?

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