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By: Cheryl Dahle, Fast Company - Read more >>

Raise your hand if The List (your to-do list) is as long as your arm! If you add more to-do's in a day than you check off in a day, you might be a bona fide Monkey Farmer. I'd bet you the first jungle harvest that you really want to be a Monkey Charmer. But how does a self-afflicted List Maker, Breaker, Taker or Faker (one who adds completed tasks to a perfectly enormous list just to check them off) move from farming to charming that clinging monkey right off the back? I'll tell you in a minute. Read more >>

Some leaders are simply too afraid of the consequences they would face if they delegated certain tasks and projects to a subordinate. Some leaders say, “Explaining the job and training somebody will take so much time that it’s faster and easier for me to do it myself.” The long-term results of that thinking would be a leader who doesn’t delegate because it’s too much trouble. Generally speaking, there are two reasons why people do not use the tools available to them: either they don’t want to do it or they do not know how. Read more >>

Your telephone rings and you answer it. The caller is Justin Thyme, a long-time recruiter extraordinaire. She’s been an excellent resource for you throughout your career and is calling now to tell you that one of her clients is buying another mid-sized company. Justin says one of the players believes you’d be a tremendous asset in a new division there and suggests that you simply name the job you want. It’s yours. No kidding. The circumstances are ideal, she says, for the client to meet with you when she comes to town in a few days. Are you available? Are you prepared for the meeting? Read more >>

Executive coaching is one of the latest status symbols to make the rounds in corporate America. Like the Palm Pilot, it is yet another cutting edge development designed to ease the way we work and make us more effective. The problem is, despite all the hype the Palm Pilot gets, many highly intelligent people still wonder what it is. For instance, an accountant for a university recently remarked, “it’s easier to write with pen and paper than with a stick on a slippery screen!” The president of a well-known national organization quipped, “My V.P. Read more >>