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An experiment with the “Lessig Style”

I like giving presentations. (Go ahead, get it out of your system…done yet? Good.)
The Lessig Style
From time to time I look up and see if anyone is doing anything new. About 9 months ago I looked up and saw several folks talking about the “Lessig Style” of presentation. I watched a couple of sample presentations, […]

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When not doing your job is the best thing you can do

I’m obviously a big fan of not doing more than you need to do to get the job done (and also not doing less than you need to do).
When I got my first big gig leading people I went from leading a team of 2 to leading a team of 100. I needed a lot […]

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Notes from the field: e-mail

Between 75 and 100 emails get through my various filters at work and home every day. This isn’t a huge e-mail load, but still represents a problem. If every email consumes only two minutes of my time (read, trash or respond, and file) I’ve burned between 2 and 3.5 hours each and every day doing […]

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Leadership notes from the field

I already mentioned this, but while a lot of the material on the site comes from the book, reading this site won’t be like reading a book.
The book covers five broad topics (leadership philosophy, managing and leading people, writing, speaking, and managing your own career) in two major areas (leadership philosophy and skills of the […]

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