The Productivity Guru

Oh, My Goodness, is it Affect or Effect?? You know it's got to be good when an article is originally written for and posted from Entrepreneur.com and then is reposted to a Harvard Business Review blog.  From there it is posted to a LinkedIn.com blog and then to my humble publication.  But here it is, a really good piece by Travis Bradberry, the award-winning co-author of the best selling book, "Emotional Intelligence 2.0", entitled "10 Misused Words That Make Smart People Look Stupid." We all have a tendency to throw words around.  They can be big words, important words and many times they are not terribly important words that we run amuck with like--affect or effect.  Bradberry's article and the points he makes in regard to today's millennial's are just as valid as they are with many of today's senior executives as with new hires.  We've lost our ability to be as articulate as we once were.  This occurs in the written as well as the spo...

The May 2001 issue of The Harvard Business Review has an excellent article called, "Effective Managers Say The Same Thing Twice (or More) http://hbr.org/2011/05/defend-your-research-effective-managers-say-the-same-thing-twice-or-more/ar/1 Research by Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi of Harvard Business School and Northwestern University respectively showed that by shadowing '13 managers in six companies for more than 250 hours....that one of every seven communications by these managers was completely redundant with a previous communication using a different technology.  They also saw that the managers who were deliberately redundant moved their projects forward faster and more smoothly.'  What was also profoundly interesting was that those managers without power planned their redundant communications whereas those with power rarely planned their redundant communications.  Also those without power ensured that there was very little time between the...