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Four questions I love to ask, and three unexpected benefits that come with them.  According to a well-known story, Nobel Prize winner Isadore Rabi shares how his mother unknowingly taught him to [...]

Are we distracted or fully present when we’re with other people?  The difference has everything to do with creating margin in our lives.  Part 5: Making Ourselves Available   Has anybody [...]

When we get overwhelmed with responsibilities and tasks, it’s easier to treat people as a “means to our ends” — but we must resist doing that. Part 4: Following Up I felt [...]

Look beyond the urgent and obvious, and you’ll discover joy in unexpected places.   Part 3: Initiating One morning as I was getting ready for the day, one of my friends from college came to [...]

How to handle those long, convoluted e-mails… and earn back hours of productivity.  Part 2: Responding Sometime last year, I sent out a poll asking about fifty coworkers for a quick 30-second [...]

Want to get your priorities and tasks under control to start off the year?  This is the first part on a new series I’m writing on communication and productivity. Part 1: Prioritizing We’ve all [...]