Category: Work

The Gist

• Read wisely, choosing books based on their value, not their novelty.
• There is little gained by trying to read as many books as possible as fast as you can. Instead, you should drink deeply.
• Reading widely allows you to…

It’s popular to rail against the social media figures that suggest that you should hustle and grind. Some find the idea of people working too much, too hard, and for too long to be bad advice, suggesting life is more than constant work. You will…

Work often gets in the way of your real work. There is a never-ending stream of incoming requests for your time, your attention, your energy, and your labor. For most of us, scratching one item off a task list only causes the replacement by two or…

Working harder on things that are not important, that don’t move you closer to your goals, or that don’t really need to be done at all, does not make you productive. Even if you write these things down on a task list, complete them, and cross…

A lot of people now have jobs where they are not required to come into an office. These people will say that they “work from home.” Most people who work from home don’t “work” while they are home. It’s not easy to do.

Eliminate Distractions

To…

There is a lot of whining this time of the year about how no one is in the office, and there is no work that a salesperson can reasonably do. It is not true that "no one" is at work. And there is always work you can do during the last two weeks of…

Your job and your work may be very different things. Your job is something you do so that you can make money. You may not want to go to your job, but you might have to if you want to survive.

Your work, on the other hand, is something you do to…

On Friday, March 26th, 2010,  I had the rare privilege of interviewing Tom Peters about his new book, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. I asked Tom about Brand You, the little big things in sales, the value of business…

Yesterday I had the rare privilege of interviewing Tom Peters about his new book, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. I asked Tom about Brand You, the little big things in sales, the value of business acumen, the politics of Continue Reading