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Peter F. Drucker’s Most Profou

ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was Preceded by an episode about Drucker’s best quotes on leadership, a third episode on his humorous quotes and fourth on his profound quotes. I created this post so that anyone listening to the podcast can grab the quotes here. Conversely, you can listen or watch the podcast here:...

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Peter F. Drucker’s Most Profou ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was Preceded by an episode about Drucker’s best quotes on leadership, a third episode on his …

Peter F. Drucker’s Wit and Humor

ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was Preceded by an episode about Drucker’s best quotes on leadership, a third episode on his humorous quotes and fourth on his profound quotes. I created this post so that anyone listening to the podcast can grab the quotes here. Conversely, you can listen or watch the podcast here:...

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Peter F. Drucker’s Wit and Humor ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was Preceded by an episode about Drucker’s best quotes on leadership, a third episode on his …

Peter F. Drucker on Management

ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was Preceded by an episode about Drucker’s best quotes on leadership, a third episode on his humorous quotes and fourth on his profound quotes. I created this post so that anyone listening to the podcast can grab the quotes here. Conversely, you can listen or watch the podcast here:...

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Peter F. Drucker on Management ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was Preceded by an episode about Drucker’s best quotes on leadership, a third episode on his …

Peter Drucker on Leadership

ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker's best quotes on leadership. This was followed by a second episode about Drucker's best quotes on management, and third episode on his humorous and profound quotes. I created this post so that anyone listening to the podcast can grab the quotes here. Conversely, you can listen or watch the podcast here....

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Peter Drucker on Leadership ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was followed by a second episode about Drucker’s best quotes on management, and t…

Perhaps Reality is Telling You Something

Today two great things happened. I received an academic journal in which one of my papers was published. And, I received a royalty check for my textbook. The first was gratifying, but the second puts food on the table. I was struck by the difference between the two. This kind of thing happened to me once before. I received an award from the president of our university on the same day that I received another check....

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Perhaps Reality is Telling You Something Today two great things happened. I received an academic journal in which one of my papers was published. And, I received a royalty check for my textbook. The first was gratifying, but the second pu…

OK, I AM CONVINCED.

I am doing it. I am converting my blog to short-form. I have toyed with it for a long time, but I am now convinced. I may add longer blog posts periodically, but my intention is to provide bite-sized ideas (like Seth's blog). I really like the sentiments found in Jimmy Collins' post about brevity found here. So so long, long-form blog posts....

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OK, I AM CONVINCED. I am doing it. I am converting my blog to short-form. I have toyed with it for a long time, but I am now convinced. I may add longer blog posts periodically, but my intention is to provide bite-siz…

Rush Limbaugh on Leadership

Rush Limbaugh died a few days ago and it is a sad time for Republicans who are still mourning a great loss. He was a lion of the conservative movement. For many years, especially before the internet, he WAS the other side of the argument in the media. The left controlled major TV news coverage. But this upstart David took on his Goliath through AM Radio....

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Rush Limbaugh on Leadership Rush Limbaugh died a few days ago and it is a sad time for Republicans who are still mourning a great loss. He was a lion of the conservative movement. For many years, especially before the interne…

100 Proverbs on Respectful Disagreement

After coming up empty after completing a search about the Proverbs’ instructions on respectful disagreement, I conducted my own review. The wise keep their mouth shut, weigh their answers carefully, and genuinely listen to others. Fools, on the other hand, are quick to lash out. They are hot-headed and quarrelsome. The Proverbs teach us to hold our tongues, avoid gossip, and speak with gentleness....

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100 Proverbs on Respectful Disagreement After coming up empty after completing a search about the Proverbs’ instructions on respectful disagreement, I conducted my own review. The wise keep their mouth shut, weigh their answers carefully…

Raise Your Expectations… Especially During Difficult Times.

Sometimes we expect too little of people and then we find that our predictions prove to be true. George W. Bush’s phrase, “The soft bigotry of low expectations,” comes to mind. People will rise to the level of your expectations for them and if you free them to use their creative genius, their capacity to adapt and overcome is enormous. General Patton said, “Never tell people how to do things. [ 663 more words ]

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Raise Your Expectations… Especially During Difficult Times. Sometimes we expect too little of people and then we find that our predictions prove to be true. George W. Bush’s phrase, “The soft bigotry of low expectations,” comes to mind. People will rise to …

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This is Why You Didn’t Change

Last week I covered James Clear’s 4-step process to building a habit: cue, craving, response, and reward (from his excellent book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones). () As you recall, all habits begin with cues. Clear reminded his readers that cues affect us whether we are aware of them or not. [ 788 more words ]
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4 Steps to Habit Formation

Last week, we began discussing James Clear’s excellent book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones. () We talked about three starting points for habit formation: 1) improving by 1% each day, 2) relying on systems rather than focusing on goals, and 3) focusing on identity rather than outcomes. [ 1,598 more word ]
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You Are Your Habits

Since May, we have been talking about personal productivity, habits, and willpower. Early in my research, I stumbled over James Clear’s excellent book, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.() It is an excellent book, and I would highly encourage you to read it. I want to highlight a few of his concepts as we wrap up this segment. [ 1,058 more word ]
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Willpower (Part V)

In the last lesson, we learned that willpower works like a muscle. We found that if you exercise your willpower, you can make it grow. However, we also found that you can also exhaust your reserve of willpower if you are not careful. In this lesson on willpower, we will examine why we make poor decisions in relation to time. Specifically, we will try to understand why we don’t do things that we know we should do (procrastination) and why we do the very things that interfere with our long-term goals (self-sabotage). [ 956 more words ]
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Willpower (Part IV)

In the last lesson, we talked about how we can increase our supply of willpower. I promised that in this lesson we would talk about how willpower works. We used to think that willpower was either an inborn trait or we believed that people of good character had willpower and people without good character did not. Some thought that you only had so much and then it would be gone; others thought that the more you used your willpower, the more you would have. [ 486 more words ]
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Willpower (Part III)

In the last lesson, we talked about how willpower works. Specifically, we reviewed the difference between the fight-or-flight response and the pause-and-plan response.[1] What is interesting is that your body can tell you about your willpower, if you know how to listen. According to McGonigal, “The single best predictor of the pause-and-plan response is something called heart rate variability.” [ 921 more words ]
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Willpower Part II

As promised, in this lesson, I will talk about how willpower works. Let’s start with how the human body works. The human body is remarkably designed. Consider all of the redundant systems in the body. You could see with just one eye, but you have two. You could pick things up with only one hand, but your abilities are enhanced by two. [ 627 more words ]
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daringerdes.com   As promised, in this lesson, I will talk about how willpower works. Let’s start with how the human body works. The human body is remarkably designed. Consider all of the redundant systems in…

Willpower Part I

In the last lesson, I talked about habit formation and how I lost weight over the summer just by eating right. I ended that lesson with this statement: “There is a fifth key to this process of automaticity—willpower. I did not talk about willpower, but that is the topic of the next lesson.”[1] So let’s talk about willpower. I just finished re-reading… [ 822 more words ]
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Habit Formation Part II

In the last lesson we talked about how habits subtly undermine our best intentions. In this lesson, I want to talk about how to form a positive new habit. On Friday, I went to the doctor for my annual physical. I have lost 16 pounds since my last visit 4 months ago. My bad cholesterol is down and he told me that it was remarkable to lose 8 percent of my body weight in 4 months. [ 978 more words ]
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daringerdes.com In the last lesson we talked about how habits subtly undermine our best intentions. In this lesson, I want to talk about how to form a positive new habit. On Friday, I went to the doctor for my an…

Habit Formation Part I

For the last few months, we have been talking about productivity. While I hope that you have found some of the concepts useful, I’m not really interested in mental assent. The goal is that you take action. Unfortunately, bad habits often block our best intentions. A Review For the sake of argument, let’s assume that you found one of the following ideas to be useful: [ 738 more words ]
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Lessons from the Storm

When I went to sleep on Friday, Hurricane Dorian was headed toward Florida. When I rose on Saturday morning, I found that the hurricane’s path to turned north. As I write, we are directly in the path of the storm. The storm is a good metaphor for things that happen at work that we can’t control. For example, a number of years ago, I worked on an additional project for weeks because we were told that this was important to the big boss. [ 708 more words ]
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Is Life out of Balance?

We are all at different places in our lives. For some, school is just started. After the mad dash of collecting school supplies, we're now back into a routine of getting children to sleep on “school-nights,” getting them up at earlier hours, and making sure that they have completed their homework. Others have different concerns. A lady I work with is getting ready to have her first child. [ 793 more words ]
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Focusing on your Priorities

In this lesson, we are going to talk about priorities. A few lessons ago, we talked about Darren Hardy’s morning routine. The guy is a machine, and what he does is worth reviewing again in light of our topic. Before getting out of bed, he: Wakes at 5 AM Thinks about that for which he is grateful. Considers his number one goal for the day… [ 605 more words ]
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Prerequisites

If you have been following the last 10 lessons, you know by now that in the early summer, I set out to a) learn what I could about productivity and b) become more organized. Summer, for a professor, is a natural pause in the rhythm of life. I still teach a couple of classes in the summer, but life slows down dramatically (as it does for retail after Christmas or the neighborhood ice cream truck after the summer heat breaks). [ 767 more words ]
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Supercharge Your Morning

In the last lesson, we talked about daily rituals. In this lesson, we will talk about morning rituals that help daily rituals function more smoothly. I will provide a model of uber-focus that will help you supercharge your day. What I’m about to describe comes from Darren Hardy’s excellent book, the Compound Effect. I read voraciously and I do not read many books twice, but I would urge you to get this book. [ 542 more words ]
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Daily Habits

In the last lesson (before we were interrupted), we were talking about morning rituals. I recently read a book entitled Daily Rituals, by Mason Curry. Curry cataloged the daily habits of more than 150 famous artists, thinkers, writers, painters, and composers. The list included notables such as Kant, Beethoven, Marx, Picasso, Dickens, and Hemmingway. Some of what you would imagine about this crowd was true. [ 728 more words ]
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daringerdes.com In the last lesson (before we were interrupted), we were talking about morning rituals. I recently read a book entitled Daily Rituals, by Mason Curry.     Curry cataloged the daily habits…

We Interrupt your Regularly Scheduled Program

I am not sure if they still do this on TV, but in times past, when there was important national news, an announcer would break in with a statement like, “We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you this important message.” Perhaps the president was speaking. Perhaps the they would relate a recent tragedy. Whatever the cause, you knew that this was important—important enough to preempt your favorite show. [ 468 more words ]
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Good Morning

I am a night owl by nature. I would rather stay up late than follow Benjamin Franklin’s admonition in Poor Richard’s Almanack: “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” But I have learned that Franklin understood something. It is the same thing that the most productive people know. In this lesson, we will briefly discuss the morning habits of successful people. [ 726 more words ]
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What Gets Measured Gets Managed

“What gets measured gets managed” is a popular quote attributed to Peter F. Drucker.[1] Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett Packard also reportedly said, “You cannot manage what you cannot measure…and what gets measured gets done.” I couldn’t find the original sources for either of these quotes, and if you are aware of the citations, I would appreciate it if you could send them my way. [ 422 more words ]
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daringerdes.com “What gets measured gets managed” is a popular quote attributed to Peter F. Drucker.[1] Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett Packard also reportedly said, “You cannot manage what you cannot measure……

Stop Using a To-Do List

What I am about to say may sound like heresy to those who are looking to be more productive, but bear with me. I am a little ADD, so I have used to-do lists to stay on track since I was a teenager. But recently, I’ve set the to-do list aside in order to be even more productive. As I’ve read about productivity this summer, I kept stumbling over a powerful argument to stop doing what I was doing and try something new. [ 698 more words ]
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Why More Activity Will Not Bring You Success

In our first lesson on productivity, we talked about identifying your definite major purpose (as Napoleon Hill described it).[1] If you have a definite major purpose, you know what you are trying to accomplish. If you don’t, you can be productive without actually moving towards success. This is what I mean: consider someone who’s trying to get to the Atlantic Ocean. [ 431 more words ]
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The Grass Really is Greener on the Other Side…And Here’s Why

My neighbor, Jimmy, seems to really enjoy yard work. Actually, I am not sure if he enjoys it or if he enjoys the manicured appearance of his yard, but he continually does whatever it takes to make his yard look great. I have never heard him complain about it. I have never seen him let it slide. He is consistent in his approach to maintaining his yard. [ 479 more words ]
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The Power of Focus

As we begin this series on personal productivity, the logical place to start is with a discussion of focus. You don’t want to get more things done. You want to get the right things done. Success does not happen accidentally. According to Jordan Peterson: A huge part of the reason that people fail is that they don’t ever set up the criteria for success. [ 653 more words ]
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The Summer of Productivity Begins

Last year, we spent the summer reviewing the major works of Seth Godin.[1] This book tour covered a dozen or more of his best works and it primarily focused on marketing. This summer, we will focus on personal productivity and time management. Since I knew I would be writing about personal productivity, I have begun reading books and watching videos on the subject. [ 244 more words ]
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daringerdes.com Last year, we spent the summer reviewing the major works of Seth Godin.[1] This book tour covered a dozen or more of his best works and it primarily focused on marketing. This summer, we will focus…

The Power of Appreciation (Part VI)

This lesson was not planned but it was too good not to share. Last week, I visited the Goose Creek/Cane Bay GBN group. We briefly reviewed the previous four parts of the lesson on appreciation before discussing this week's lesson—the data that demonstrated that we devalue others when we demonstrate that they are not worth our time, when we don’t know their names, or when we are uninterested in their lives outside of work. [ 387 more words ]
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