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There’s a kind of optimism that we engage in when we live close by – that our trip to our destination will be a perfect one. This assumption makes us late… and it has a name: the planning fallacy. My article in the Gleaner explains how it works. Why People Who Live Next Door Are Always Late.

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Many RFP’s I respond to never result in actual projects. Why does that happen?

Here’ s what, and what should be done about the problem.

Click here to read my latest article in the Jamaica Gleaner.

 

 

Are RFP’s for consulting services a waste of time? Can clients do their own diagnosis and then judge the differences between different proposals based on varying philosophies?

You be the judge – How to Issue an Effective RFP for Consulting Services.

Success doesn’t come by randomly falling into one activity after another. Instead, it must be pre-planned if it’s going to take place at all. Here are some new reasons to follow this timeless routine.

Want Success? Pencil the Time Into Your Schedule.

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There’s recent research from McKinsey and Co showing that executive teams are poor at executing projects, partly because they are weak at managing their time demands.

In other words they overcommit – being much better at managing time than money. The pressure turns companies into time gluttons.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140413/business/business8.html

I heard a new term in my training recently – “swarming.” It’s when an employee is inundated by other people, all of whom have been asked by an email sender to help get a timely response.

It inspired an article focusing on email abuse which can be found here.