Articles tagged: "Progress"

1: What If...Enough Wasn't Good Enough?

The other day a client emailed me with an update and ended with “So thanks for the crappy assignment It was great

2: Looking Backward Illuminates How to Make Improvements in the Present and Future

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This article explains how social improvements can be made much more rapidly.

3: Live like 2408 in 2008 IV

This article looks forward to see what the opportunity is to improve your life with normal progress.

4: Live Like 2408 In 2008 II

This article examines your perceptions of how your life will be in the future. What are you afraid of?

5: Live like 2408 in 2008 V

This article looks at how concentrating faster improvements could increase the quality of your life.

6: Live like 2408 in 2008 -1-

What if we already knew what it takes to live as well as people will in 2403? This article looks at American history to develop some glimpses of what we might find.

7: Simplify Your Work to Make Your Work Better

Many people cannot resist adding little touches to improve an offering or a way of providing that offering. Yet if those little touches add more work, they may ultimately diminish the value for customers and users by increasing mistakes while driving those who produce the offering crazy. Keep it simple!

8: Salespeople: Ask Questions to Find Out if You Are Getting Your Point Across

Most salespeople focus on a great pitch for their offerings. But it may not be such a great pitch if the listener doesn't care about what you have to say or doesn't understand. Questions can help you make more sales than even the best pitch.

9: Win the Race to Make Breakthrough Improvements

"What if" thinking can lead to seeing higher potential areas for creating breakthrough improvements. This article provides an example of how to do this kind of thinking and accomplish a large profit improvement.

10: Stop Stalling and Make Breakthroughs Instead by Banishing Habits That Slow Down Improvements

Individuals and organizations cost themselves dearly by sticking with habits that brake their rate of improvement. Identify and eliminate those bad habits, and your improvements will turn into breakthroughs.

11: Would You Hire a Carpenter Who Never Measures? -- Progress through Measurements of What to Work on

Sloppy carpentry can ruin the most valuable materials and leave a mess that costs a fortune to correct. Yet many businesses limit themselves to measuring physical things, such as a good carpenter might do. Perhaps no more helpful measurements exist than those that direct us towards valuable tasks.

12: Doing Things the Way They've Always Been Done Is Costly -- If It Isn't Broken, Improve It Anyway!

Everything we do can be improved. But following a company or family tradition can keep us from considering how matters can be enhanced. Question those traditions to get the best results. This article provides directions for how to shed those outmoded traditions.

13: Weight Loss Tips

Are you looking to lose weight to improve your appearance, your health, or even both? If you are, you may be looking for advice. The good news is that there are a number of tips that you can use to help you successfully lose weight and hopefully achieve your weight loss goal.

14: Singletasking vs. Multitasking: Why Doing One Thing At A Time Is Faster Than Trying To Do Them All

I've been bogged down of late. Probably just like you. I've been working on multiple projects and multiple tasks and completely unfocused for months, my mind a maze of unfinished and un-begun tasks. In fact, I have so many tasks I know I need to do that I hardly begin any it seems for fear of n