Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle
New Thinking from Framework Consulting
My thinking is that we shouldn’t be paralyzed by the recent macro-economic trends in Jamaica, but focus instead on the small actions that we can each take to expand our own productivity.
This article appears in the Sunday Gleaner today.
How to Respond to the IMF’s Message to Jamaica
There are a number of reasons why the Caribbean executive needs to do more than just out-work his/her peers but must also share the way in which they are able to be productive. If they project the idea that they “have arrived” then that’s what people around them will think is the formula for success: hubris and over-confidence.
This article is from the Trinidad Newsday.
Why Executives Need to Teach Time Management
The debate sparked by Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayers, continues on the pages of Businessuite Magazine. Here’s an article a mention in an interview.
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Businessuite Digital Weekly: Working from Home vs. The Office
This article I wrote for the Gleaner speaks to the reasons why leaders need to show their employee how to learn, by being transparent about their own learning. It’s a much better way to teach.
Time Management – Why Leaders Need to Learn and to Teach It.
I made an appearance on TVJ to talk about the (in) famous Yahoo pronouncement that the company would no longer allow its employees to work from home. I looked at the pros and cons of this policy from a time management perspective. Click here – Time Management Policies.
The first chapter was drafted back in March 2009 and it earned exactly two supportive comments on my blog. I can’t bear to look at it now, but it was my first effort to place Time Management 2.0 ideas within the context of a story. A novel. A fable about business that would tell a story, but at the same time impart some powerful lessons about being productive in today’s work environment.
The book is now complete and it has its own page – Bill’s Im-Perfect Time Management Adventure and it’s available on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle formats.
The recent news in Jamaica predicts that we are in for some difficult times. With the new harsh realities come an increase in the number of hard to have conversations.
How to conduct difficult workplace conversations
A recent article I wrote for my column in the Sunday Gleaner addresses a hangover from slavery days – a tendency we have to be harsh when we are the boss.
This Gleaner article addresses the fact that there are profits to be made wherever business frictions exists, and complaining about it can help mask the fact that there is an opportunity.
How to Turn Friction into Opportunity
Recently I was interviewed on TVJ on the topic of time management for employees that must figure out how to survive by doing more with less.