Who would have thought managing our personal technology would become so important? The world is changing at an ever-increasing rate. IBM estimates the entire body of human knowledge is now doubling every 13 months. We are exposed to more information in a day than our Grandparents were in a year. Yet our brain’s capacity to absorb information is still stuck where it’s always been, about 5 bits per second. In order to keep up with this ever increasing information…
Did you know how you manage your communications can affect your mental health? Once long ago, in a land far, far, away, people lived in a simpler world. There were only 3 TV networks, one or two daily newspapers in your city, and there was only one telephone on a little table in the entrance hall to your home. News broadcasts were two or three times a day, only lasting about 30 minutes including weather, sports, and financial markets. …
Thomas Frey in his latest blog ( http://bit.ly/2yFqvos ) states that distraction management is one the 12 personal skills you will need in the future to be successful. Really? How did something like distraction management get to be such a big issue? What has technology done to us? In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone. This was the first “smart” phone capable of carrying applications other than just phone calls and voice mail. At the time, it didn’t seem like such a…
In my original post in this series (http://bit.ly/2v8mXJm ), I listed the 10 critical skills you will need to prepare yourself to succeed in the coming upheaval in the job market. Today I want to discuss number 8 on the list, Service Orientation. Why is Service Orientation so Important? Service Orientation may be the most difficult of the skills to describe. Yet in many ways, it is the most important of the 10 skills even though it’s…
Why are Social styles important? In my previous posts on Social Styles, I have stressed the importance of understanding these styles. Your ability to communicate with these different styles of people will make a huge difference in the profits at your bottom line. Today, I want to discuss the last of the 4 Social Styles, the Amiable. What is the Amiable Social Style? Amiable are, well…amiable. They are very people and question oriented. They are easy to…
As small business owners we face many demands on our time every day. Struggling to increase efficiency, we often resort to a practice called “multitasking”. This term means doing two things at once. Today, we often hear about highly successful people who are great multitaskers. Here is the blunt truth. It is physically impossible for your brain to do two things at once. In fact, recent research shows the effort to do so may cause brain damage. Just what…
You’ve gone into business for yourself. You are beginning to build a client base. Suddenly you think, “Holy Cow, how am I going to keep track of all these people?” The answer is a good customer relationship manager (CRM) program. There are lots of them out there, so how do you choose. Attached is an excellent article that should help you decide. (As a side note, I use Nimble and have found it easy to use and very…
As small business owners we are all pushed for time. There just never seems to be enough to get it all done. George wondered if I could find some apps that could help make us more efficient. Here is the first in this series. I will also be on the lookout for things we can add to our websites to make them more efficient. Thanks George for the idea, and the support. We’re always on the lookout for small…
