From the monthly archives:

October 2005

Keeping my assistant on task: Use of lists

October 30, 2005

It’s been several weeks now that Elizabeth has been working as my assistant. We sat down this week to talk about how things are working. I’m really pleased because she took the initiative to say it was important we do this.
Her biggest issue was she is frustrated that she cant’ get everything done. We created [...]

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Am I working when at home???

October 27, 2005

My two teenage boys say the darndest things. My youngest asks me every day when he comes home from school, “Why aren’t you working? You didn’t go to see clients today.”
Up until a few months ago, I was constantly at client sites. I wasn’t really billing (means making money) unless I was at their office [...]

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The need for a bit more formality with my staff

October 23, 2005

Wow…what a week I’ve had. It’s gone so fast it’s almost a blur. Many things got done and you can see I didn’t even get a chance a blog. I like to write and I feel it is important to share my lessons with you. Sorry
The overall observation for this week is that [...]

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The fear of delegating

October 17, 2005

I woke up very early this morning in the middle of a bad dream. In the dream, my new assistant called at the last minute to say she had left town for a missions trip to help those stranded in New Orleans. I panicked! We have a big report due out this week for a [...]

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How long does it take you to find information? How do you compare to this survey?

October 13, 2005

A recent survey by Zylab, a supplier of document management software, found that 80% of survey respondents said it took a day or more to find specific information. 20% can find their information within an hour. What a waste of time!
When asked how they retrieve the information, about 40% use software and another 40% [...]

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Annoying behavior in the office – what can you do?

October 12, 2005

In the September issue of my newsletter I wrote an article about the cost of not being nice (see it here). The main gist was to get us all to think about what we may be doing to others and the impact to the overall business.
An article came out today in the Fort Wayne Journal [...]

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Keep your computer in working order – tips & tools

October 8, 2005

For many months I’ve been living with an irritating message that displays every time my computer starts up. The computer runs fine so I just ignore it. It happened after I installed Norton Anti-Virus 2005. I am computer knowledgeable enough to know it needed to be fixed someday, but wasn’t hurting anything.
Almost a year ago [...]

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Are you getting in your own way?

October 7, 2005

Are you working “in” your business or “on” your business as Michael Gerber says? (Author of E-Myth Revisted). My colleague, Marsha Sims, didn’t know how much she was in her own way until she took a traveling training position and hired others to run her professional organizing business. The organizing business is making more [...]

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