Friday, May 30, 2014

Why I Don’t Think This Entrepreneur Tech Boom Will Help the US Economy

Need a Focus on Things, Not Just Ideas

Americans are known as being one of history’s leading modern inventors, building one of best global economies in history. With this new entrepreneurship boom in the software and technology industry the US economy is seeing many great new ideas, resources and services. Just look at the billion dollar ideas that have come from WhatsApp, Facebook, DropBox, and others. With all of that said, I believe the US will not actually build and create sustainable jobs for the economy without change.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Engage! Through Efficient Meetings

Engage! Through Efficient Meetings

Are your meetings a seemingly endless parade of status updates? Do your meetings always get side-tracked by irrelevant topics? Do you always have back-to-back 1-hour long meetings?

If you are anything like me and the majority of American’s you are always trying to do more during your eternally scarce work resource – time. Shorter attention spans, more multi-tasking, more interactions, more global teams, more team rooms, more projects, more high priorities, more strategies, more decisions, more initiatives and at the base of all of this – more meetings.

To create more efficient use of time and communication for every aspect of what you are doing “more” of is the thoroughly efficient meeting. Create shorter, more engaging meetings, loyal employees or co-workers, and enthusiastic attendants. This isn’t aimed to transform every meeting into a motivational speech, but simply establishing a better use of resources during what is considered to be one of the most highly unproductive times of the day – meetings.