Meetings

The Science of Naps
Leadership

The Science of Naps

My two-year-old is asleep for the third time today. I thought I had developed a clever disciplinary method when I started telling him that cranky kids need[...]
Erin Wildermuth
Bouncing Back After Burnout
Leadership

Bouncing Back After Burnout

The intentions are noble: You want to buy a house with a backyard for your kids, pay off debt, or do something to actually justify the $50,000 worth of student[...]
Andrea Williams
The Importance of Play
Leadership

The Importance of Play

This past weekend our family had to cancel a special trip to a friend’s lake house that had been circled on the calendar for months. Our initial weekend[...]
Andrew Lott
Get a Life!
Leadership

Get a Life!

For my first job in Washington, DC, I worked very long hours. One night, a rare dinner date was lined up. “What time do you get off?” my date asked to[...]
Jeremy Lott
5 Ways to Hold Shorter Meetings
Leadership

5 Ways to Hold Shorter Meetings

When Bryan Stockton was pushed out as CEO of toymaker Mattel, he fingered a complacent company culture for dipping profits. In fact, he went one step further[...]
Michael Hyatt
Your Own Personal Time Machine
Productivity

Your Own Personal Time Machine

I spend most of my work-life in meetings. Note-taking is a survival skill. Yet, I am surprised at how few people bother to take notes in meetings. Those who do[...]
Michael Hyatt
Leadership

Why Most Meetings Still Suck

As long as you have to have meetings, you might as well do them well. Before you plan another meeting (and suffer the rest of us to sit through them), make a[...]
Michael Hyatt
Productivity

Finding More “Head Time”

Most of us don’t spend enough time thinking. We are so busy doing that we have, I fear, almost forgotten how to think. Yet it is our thinking, more than any[...]
Michael Hyatt
Leadership

Ten Annoying Meeting Behaviors

I spend more hours in meetings than out. Perhaps you do, too. Over the years, I have cataloged a list of annoying meeting behaviors or just “AMBs”[...]
Michael Hyatt