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The Solopreneur Handicap That Makes You Suck at Productivity

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Wipe last night’s cereal crumbs from your keyboard. And maybe I don’t mean corporate in the worst sense of say, a GE advisory committee trying to make strategy decisions on microwave infrastructure and market demographic dynamics. Teams however, rock. The team creates that pressure. The solopreneurial dream is sexy.

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Colour Coding Works.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was in back-to-back Committee meetings and I decided to use two different colours of folders, a blue one for the Committee members, with an attendance sheet stapled to the inside cover for my purposes, along with their meeting packages, and a red one for the Chair with everything the Chair was going to need.

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

To-do lists I have to-do lists for the Board and Committee meetings and a to-do list for the Board Reception and Dinner. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. .© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 14 June, 2009 Meeting preparation. You can never go wrong if you are making a list and checking it twice.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

By masking her identity from the hiring committee, it guaranteed that she’d be judged on her performance, not her gender. Thanks to people like him, we now know that diverse teams tend to outperform their more uniform counterparts. Maybe that team-building poker night at the local cigar bar isn’t such a good idea after all.

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Going Checklist Crazy

Laughing all the Way to Work

On Day 1 we have Committee meetings so there is a list of things I need for those. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Making a List, Checking it Twice The Board meeting I am preparing for is a two-day event and I dont want to forget anything that I need to do leading up to it, or anything that I need on the day of.