Category: Management
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Managing yourself
Your toughest leadership challenge is always yourself. – Bill Hybels Managing yourself is the most important thing you do. It’s true whether you’re a minister, CEO, professor or student. Many of us show up to work each day with a diffuse list of responsibilities and fairly significant amount of control over our calendar (unless you’re a […]
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Managing tension v. Solving problems
Business writers often talk about the difference between problems and tensions. You solve problems. You manage tensions. We’re wired to look for solutions and to find answer to what we believe are problems. Life in a complex world, however, means that a lot of our most important decisions (and much of our work) revolve around […]
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First things first
Thanks to Mike Hyatt for reminding me of Stephen Covey’s very simple rule that I find so easy to forget: always keep first things first.
Jeff Gissing 