Elizabeth over at Career and Kids points out the similarities between managing and being a parent.
My fave? Number 4:
4. Oral Communication—efficient and effective so there are no misunderstandings
Work: “Again, I want to make sure everyone understands that…”
Home: “How many times do I have to tell you…?”

Jay at Dumb Little Man has a post on leaving work at work that I really resonated with.
Before I had kids I wasn’t very good at this, which mostly worked out family-wise because my wife was in med school so it was mostly just me.
But it did not work out creativity-wise. As Ive already talked […]

There’s a new blog carnival out there on Leadership that’s worth keeping an eye on.
In addition to a post from me, there are posts in the inaugural carnival on professional ethics, commitment driving success, personal strategic planning, and many others.
You can find the first Carnival of Leadership at Project Management Source.

I work for the Federal government and I spend a LOT of time in meetings. I’m tempted to replace the “and” in that sentence with “therefore,” but I had just as many meetings when I was part of big industry, too.
Meetings can be frustrating and often have a pretty low productivity-per-minute, but the answer is […]

Here’s something that virtually no one will ever tell you. I don’t think anyone ever told me this, either, but I’ve found time and again that when I make real progress I’m following this rule: don’t do everything on your list. My rule of thumb is that 85% of all the things I have to […]

Since we just finished a piece related to everyone’s number one fear, I wanted to point you to an excellent resource I found could be helpful to you as you develop your own speaking skills.
I got an email from TJ Walker over at The Speaking Channel with a pointer to his new show, “Bully Pulpits: […]

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, […]

If you’re going to be a successful public speaker the first thing you need to accomplish is to have your audience pay attention and remember what you say during your talk, speed, presentation, or seminar. To do this you’re going to have to be quick on your toes, and adapt. Here are a couple of […]

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 […]