The Programme Director of a large and well-known NGO gave me a very interesting document at the end of a training. She had shared the article with her colleagues and said she was putting most of it into practice, with…
Getting e-mails sorted out is becoming more and more nightmarish. Finding out how to manage the incessant flow of incoming e-mails has become the main objective of people attending my personal effectiveness courses. So here are quick tips to get…
"Overcome the willpower myth" is a blog posting by Penelope Trunk that I read after my own post (in French) on the same topic. I very much like the analogy with farming and how you can avoid depleting your mental…
This is not very recent but I like the way the marshmallow can be made to be less attractive. What if you could use this strategy to reduce your distractions (facebook, tv, ...) and increase your attention on less glamourous…
I was at a client's yesterday where I happen to be in the vicinity of a copier machine. As Murphy has taught us to expect, the machine was not functioning properly while someone was in an hurry to print/copy a…