027 Curing Overwhelm • PODCAST

027 Curing Overwhelm • PODCAST

 


 

Click here for Tony Mayo's podcastLearn the one common mistake to avoid if you are tired of feeling overwhelmed by listening to this quick audio message from Tony Mayo, The Business Owner’s Executive Coach.

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025 Capsule Coaching for All Leaders • PODCAST

025 Capsule Coaching for All Leaders • PODCAST

 


 

Click here for Tony Mayo's podcastA quick message on the most important thing for leaders to learn and two things they must do, from The Business Owner’s Executive Coach.

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023 The Values of Anger • DeskVideo • PODCAST

023 The Values of Anger • DeskVideo • PODCAST

 


Click here for Tony Mayo's podcastA quick message from an executive coach on how to get value from your anger.

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A Simple Habit That Can Boost Productivity

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Repeat Back
&
Report Back

Here is a simple habit that can boost productivity in your organization. One client credits this technique for an 18% increase in annual revenue with a reduced headcount. It takes practice but quickly becomes second nature.

I brought this method into the workplace from my flight training. Pilots and air traffic controllers (ATC) must communicate precisely and briefly while also executing specialized tasks. Misunderstandings in aircraft can have horrible consequences, so specific communication techniques are required. Many of the most serious accidents are caused by failure to follow these practices, including the 1977’s Tenerife Airport Disaster, commercial aviation’s deadliest incident.

Talk may be cheap but miscommunication is costly.

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The Power of Concentration – New York Times

 


 

The core of mindfulness is the ability to pay attention. …less about spirituality and more about concentration: the ability to quiet your mind, focus your attention on the present, and dismiss any distractions that come your way.

…[Of] those who had received the mindfulness training. Not only did they report fewer negative emotions at the end of the assignment, but their ability to concentrate improved significantly. They could stay on task longer and they switched between tasks less frequently. …They also remembered what they did better than the other participants in the study.

 

The Power of Concentration
By Maria Konnikova
in The New York Times
on December 15, 2012

 


 

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YouTube’s Chief, Hitting a New ‘Play’ Button – NYTimes.com




Productivity and success in this industry are based a lot of the time on insights and prioritization and actually on doing the right thing, not necessarily on 15-hour work days. Google is very results-oriented.


–Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube


She is home for dinner with her family almost every night — her husband, Dennis Troper, is a director at Google — and she generally doesn’t answer weekend emails until 9 p.m. on Sundays.


via YouTube’s Chief, Hitting a New ‘Play’ Button – NYTimes.com.




Return to the Core


The tempo of modern civilization has a centrifugal force that carries us outward from the core of life toward ever-expanding peripheries. One should return frequently to the core, and to the basic values of the individual, to natural surroundings, to simplicity and contemplation. Long ago, I resolved to so arrange my life that I could move back and forth between periphery and core.
 

–Charles A. Lindbergh

Autobiography of Values


 

See also Tony Mayo’s review of the book here.

 


 

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