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Being a valuable resource for your direct reports can be critical to successfully managing your team. It can also be a time waster of epic proportions. I was recently working with a company on a major time management issue. We discovered the root cause of the problem was not only the abuse of the “open door” policy of the leadership team, but the fact that, in many cases, they would simply “take the monkey” from their direct reports and assume the burden of the task because t

According to Atlassian, the typical employee attends 62 meetings per month, considers nearly half of that time wasted, amounting for 31 hours spent in unproductive meetings EVERY MONTH. The higher up you get, the worse it gets, with upper management spending nearly 50% of their time in meetings. In fact, unproductive meetings account for over $37 Billion in salary costs for U.S. Businesses. The secret?  The EOS Level 10 Meeting™ Simply put, a weekly Level 10 meeting is one in

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” ― Shannon L. Alder Our life blueprint is defined by our core values.  They define who we are and serve as an internal lighthouse and make sure we are on the right path with respect to the actions we take, decisions we make, and the people we surround ourselves with.  Without these core values, we are left to stray. The same holds true for