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Are You in the Compression Zone?
Perry Marshall is. So are my husband and I. So are most of our friends. When I read Marshall’s recent blog post, Shout Out to the 30-Something Street Fightin Man, I thought a lot of you might be in...
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Are These Sacred Cows Holding You Back?
I have to admit, when my colleague Jake Breeden told me the title of his new book, I had to look up what it meant. But once I did, it made perfect sense. Jake’s book, Tipping Sacred Cows, is about...
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Addressing an Inefficient Process
It’s one of the great injustices of Corporate America. Complex processes spring up around everything, and only some of them make sense. As someone with an eye toward improving productivity and adding...
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5 Truths About Work/Life Fit
My friend, Cali Yost, is an internationally-recognized expert on work/life fit. In her new book, Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, she suggests ways to hone in and make time for...
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Be Productive First Thing in the Morning
Once upon a time, I was a morning person. Good thing that was back in high school, when I had to be in class at 7:30AM! In all seriousness, though, mornings have become more difficult for me since...
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Should You Relocate for a Job?
In a job market that still leaves something to be desired, the question on many professionals’ minds is, “should I relocate?” Whether your current organization offers you a transfer that sounds too...
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How to Capitalize on Unpredictability
The last few years of economic and job market uncertainty have caused many of us to nearly have stress-induced heart attacks, but some fellow professionals have come out better than ever. Why?...
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How to Get Clear Direction from Your Boss
You know the feeling. Your manager gives you an assignment, and when you think you have a good handle how to proceed, you go off on your merry way. You’re independent and a great employee, so you come...
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Workplace Confidential: Real Gender Differences in Communication
Remember Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus? Romantic relationships are one thing, but no one talks much about how Mars and Venus fare at work. In fact, there are significant verbal and...
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6 Types of Change Resisters That Are Holding Back Progress
Change is essential and inevitable for all organizations, but some people are better at coping with it than others. Dana Brownlee is the founder of Professionalism Matters, a national corporate...
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How to Get Past No – 5 Steps to a Breakthrough Negotiation
In their famous book, Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher and William Ury provided a negotiation strategy that has become standard for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in personal and professional...
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How Millennials Are Like Wild Bees
Just when I thought I’d read everything about Millennials (employees born after 1980), along comes Claire Lacroix-Bouchardie from Mercer New York. She wrote a white paper about how flighty Millennials...
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How to Automate Your Day – Part 1: Morning
This is the first in a three-part series on how to automate your day so that you have more time for the important things, stay at the top of your game, and remain relevant and marketable in your field....
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Want to Be More Productive at Work? Know Your People Style
Co-workers are like family. Most of the time, you don’t get to choose them and there will inevitably be people around with whom you naturally clash. However, at work, how well you relate with others...
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Workplace Lessons Learned From Prison
Do you ever wonder what happens to all the disgraced business leaders and politicians who get caught and end up in jail? Jeff Smith, a former up-and-coming star in the Missouri State Senate, can...
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How to Automate Your Day – Part 3: Evening
This is the last in a three-part series on how to automate your day so that you have more time for the important things, stay at the top of your game, and remain relevant and marketable in your field....
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5 Spreadsheet Hacks for Excel Users
On the heels of our recent series on automation and productivity hacks, it occurred to me that some of you might have to do spreadsheets more often than I do. And let me tell you, when I do them,...
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Reader Question: Do My Colleagues Think I’m Obnoxious?
I recently received this question from a Fast Track reader: I really like my new company and my new boss, and at his urging I have been signing up for lots of extracurricular activities like volunteer...
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Gamify Your E-mail for Better Organization
Imagine a world in which cleaning your e-mail inbox felt like the first day you got your hands on that new Super Mario Brothers game for your Nintendo. Okay, maybe Baydin’s E-mail Game isn’t that...
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8 Bad Mistakes New Managers Make
Many new leaders are thrust into supervisory positions quickly, with no real management training to speak of. So as you would expect, they make lots of mistakes. Here are a few of the most common....
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