Want to get more done? Relax!

Last year I worked out something pretty important.  In my fourth year of being self employed (and the fourth year of the recession, as it happens), I finally realised that I was allowing myself to chase any piece of viable business that moved.  I had set myself...

Admit it! You've lost the plot.

“It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or...

Negotiating: do it over food!

I’m inspired this week by some research done by Lakshmi Balachandra at Babson College in the USA into whether negotiating is best done over a meal.  It’s a question I get asked regularly on training courses, to which my instinctive reaction has always been...