100’ SPLIT: The Simplest Work Time Tracker
An excellent tool for tracking time and estimating productivity requires a scrap of paper and a pencil …
2X2 MATRIX: Splits Anything into Four Categories
The most popular managerial tool allows you to split any set into four categories and get enough granularity for many situations …
“EFFECTIVE MANAGERS”: Should Work for Your Competitor
These are dangerous jerks with positional power lacking relevant managerial skills or common sense to compensate for this absence …
ABUNDANCE OF RESOURCES: Helps Create, Forgives Waste
Any large group can solve many problems and get away with many inefficiencies due to the abundant resources …
ADEQUACY: Enough Is Better than the Best
When anybody flashes numbers before you, it is reasonable to ask, “Is it adequate for the purpose?” or “How much is enough?”
ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD: The Smaller, the Better
Administrative overhead is the amount of resources you spend not on work but on the organization of this work …
ANALOGY: Simple and Good
Although its outcome might not be accurate, it might give an idea …
BLACK-BOX APPROACH: Tweak Inputs, Watch Outputs
While not interested in or unable to know the internal processes, we can still affect…
BOSSES AND LEADERS: They Rarely Meet in Person
You can hardly find any site or course about leadership that does not have lengthy discussions about the differences between bosses and leaders…
BUFFER: Preparing to Feed the Unexpected
Also known as a reserve, it is an additional amount of resources that a planner allocates so that …
BUILD YOUR LAB: Practice by Playing at Low-Stakes
No one can become good at working with people or managing projects by reading books or …
CALIBRATE YOUR PERCEPTION: Others Might Be Right
It helps when our reality, at least in essential aspects, does not differ much from …
CAPACITY TO CHANGE: Most Heroes Refuse The Call. Period.
We usually take for granted people's ability to change. This assumption comes from …
CERTAINTY HOLDER: Prozac for Humanity
A Certainty Holder is a figure, role, or concept created by people to decrease their fear of …
CHANGING GROUP NORMS: Next to Impossible
Changing existing norms is hard if you are at the top; it is (next to) impossible if you are …
CHARISMA: More, Please!
People cannot define charisma but often think they need more of it than …
CHECKPOINT: Can Prevent a Fiasco
Having a checkpoint without explicit knowledge of what to check is …
COALITION: The Meek, Unite!
A coalition is a group that voluntarily forms for some time to push a goal important to …