Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard that admonition. And you may even recognize that two word mantra as Habit 1 of Stephen Covey’s classic book 7 Habits of Highly Effective ...

Get out of your inbox. No one ever changed the world by writing an email. If you’re looking to have more impact, get away from your inbox and make the time for thinking and doing. By definition, ...

Your colleagues are used to it, more or less – the sight of you rushing through the office door, phone to your ear, just moments away from opening file cabinet drawers and thumping file folders on ...

The proactive mindset is one that attempts to anticipate and prevent issues, rather than waiting for issues to arise before addressing them. It’s about gathering information, analyzing it, and acting ...

Recently, an international team of researchers identified that robust white matter connectivity between specific brain regions is key to fluid intelligence and thinking proactively. Conversely, the ...

My week, as it relates to football, is a fairly predictable process. I start the new week’s research on Monday, verifying and adjusting anything I need on Tuesday morning. I start the week’s writing ...

Last Christmas, Toni Portmann had the sort of problem that would stump any CEO of a 24-hour, 365-day-a-year operation: How do you compel workers, many of whom are brand-new to your company, to show up ...