If machines do more work, will we have less? Depends on Governments!
I was discussing with a Sales Director some changes that are happening in the workplace… how technology should be an enabler to let people work better, and how, used properly, this means that we will have… less work to do! Sure, we are not there yet, but look at how rapidly the professions — and the
Do you feel enslaved to Digitalisation?
The digital transformation process can be smooth! What happens often is that different teams or departments within the same company feel as passive receivers of a decision that was made elsewhere that does not really benefit them. When this happens, people are very reluctant to change.
5 Mistakes that will make your Working From Home miserable
Working From Home has several advantages, in that it allows you more flexibility to manage your time – and even to implement some of the productivity tips much more easily: would you do jumping jack exercises in the middle of the office to reactivate your body and refresh your mind? I don’t think so
The 10 Tips you need to know to obtain more results in less time
Picture yourself in one of these moments when you feel you are giving the best you can and obtaining much better results than the average day. It is possible to consistently achieve that type of great performance, and in this series of Productivity Tips you will leverage the best hints that worked f
How can YOU achieve GREAT results in LESS time (top Productivity)?
To obtain great results in less time you need to become the person that has the skills, the strength and the competence to achieve top productivity and to hold it firmly into your hands. The more you grow as a person, the more you grow as a professional, the more you realise that the source of succe
Characteristics of Top Productive people
You probably read my series of productivity tips, which range from personal approach to management techniques to communication and interaction. But… are there some characteristics that all top productive people have in common? And are these received at birth or can they be acquired, trained and expa
Why Coaching for Executives, Managers, Business owners?
“97% of coached companies would recommend business coaching to other SME” (London Business Coaching) -- In the vast majority of roles, you have someone more experienced you can learn from, or someone with more seniority who allows you to understand how things work in the company. And, in any case, t
[Productivity Tip #10] - Disruption: challenge the “normal”
“Challenge yourself, your teams, your employees; seek for potential areas to disrupt, before an external, unexpected disruption impacts your productivity” (Tim Ferriss) — While are living in a moment of transition where the impact of changes and innovation grows exponentially. To pick just one examp
[Productivity Tip #9] - Your mind follows your body
When I ‘m unfocused I try to get out of my head and into my body (Semin Nosrat, quote from Tim Ferriss’ book “Tribe of Mentors”) You have seen in the previous tips various ways to manage your time, your energy, your activities, your focus, how to consistently have results and how to rely on empoweri
[Productivity Tip # 8] - 80/20 rule: what is missing? - An advanced application
“If you think about what we do in terms of efficiency, you may fall into the trap of trying to do things better, faster and cheaper instead of trying to be more effective and do high-quality tasks that have a greater impact on yourself and your business” (Kayvon K, Forbes Councils, 2017) — Many peop
Have plenty of Energy! - Achieve Top Performance? You need Energy!
[Main overview thread — a spin-off started from Tip #7a and Tip #7b of my Productivity Series — for each of the points below I will write a separate article] Dude you never get tired! Well, I actually do, sometimes, and you will see some ways to deal with it. There can be days in a row when the en
[Productivity Tip # 7.b] - Plan your tasks by your energy
The time you unplug is a part of, not opposite to, your workday (Tom Gibson) So, you have planned your activities and sorted them… long-term versus short-term impact, long tasks versus short tasks, deep work versus light work, high energy versus low energy needed. But you realised in Productivity Ti
[Productivity Tip # 7.a] - Manage your Energy, not your Time!
“If you have the same amount of energy of an ordinary average person, you will be an ordinary average person” (Marco Robert) You read on the previous Productivity Tip #5 how people, when confronted with relentless demands and unexpected challenges, tend to slip into the fight-or-flight mode. Such st
[Productivity Tip # 6] - Work Less!
“It seems counter-intuitive, but you can get more done by doing less.It’s your level of performance when you are working that counts” Now that you put in practice the Productivity Tip #5 your defence is solid and that’s enough to avoid losing… but if you are reading this series of articles you are a
[Productivity Tip # 5] - Problems or Challenges? Depression, Burnout, Turnover
“We have created an environment so complex, fast paced, and information laden, but we must increasingly deal with it in the fashion of the animals we long ago transcended” (Robert Cialdini) Basically, our biology is not designed for today’s world; it didn’t catch up with the rapid changes of the l
[Productivity Tip # 4] - Your community is your strength
“No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind” (Napoleon Hill) Now that it’s clear why habits are the fundamental bricks of your performance and how to start building up the great palace you have in mind, you may b
[Productivity Tip # 2] - Talent is Overrated
“If you believe that your performance is forever limited by your lack of a specific innate gift […] then there is no chance at all that you will do the work” Relying on an inborn talent is a limiting belief. This is what Geoff Colvin shows in his book “Talent is overrated”, providing lots of studies
[Productivity Tip # 1] - Be extremely specific in your ask
“it’s useless to push to the maximum if you go in the wrong direction” (Giorgio Ceredi) Did you have a fascination for Robin Hood and archers as I did in my childhood? I always remember those round targets with colourful concentric circles. One thing was clear to me: if you want to hit the centre of
Returning to the office: disrupt or be disrupted. How will the future of the workplace look like?
Technology and motivation of your people will make the workplace more fluid — here is how One of the main challenges going back to the offices is that many people will not be motivated to work from the office anymore. This pandemic acted as the reckless kid in the folktale of the emperor’s new cloth
