One of my posts on WorkingPoint was about asking the right questions at different stages of your business maturation — there are some questions that you should ask when you’re getting started, and others that you ask several years in. But what questions matter for today? Jason Cohen of Smart Bear Software posted a follow-up [ Read More ]
For the past four years, I’ve kept a sign over my desk that reads: “I don’t have time” = “I haven’t made it a priority.” I’ve written about this before, but never to explain the origins of this epiphany. The credit for this lesson goes to a sharp, good-humored, understatedly charismatic man named Robert. As [ Read More ]
A recent study conducted by BlessingWhite shows that a full one-third of over 2,000 supervisors interviewed “don’t have time to coach” their direct reports. While I find nothing inherently surprising in that statistic, I do find the reasoning behind it fundamentally flawed: the reason that supervisors “don’t have time” is because they have not made [ Read More ]