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Author: Jack Klemeyer

Assumptions Can Be The Most Dangerous Thing You Make in Business

There is an interesting dichotomy in business that makes you both successful and keeps you from being successful and that is the act of making assumptions. How can assumptions be useful? We all modify our world in order for it to make sense by doing three basic things, we generalize, we delete and we distort things so we can comprehend, explain and survive. From that comes the phrase made famous by the late Stephen R. Covey, “The map is not the territory.” This phrase was not a Covey original. It was originally coined in the 1930s by Polish-American scientist...

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Get More Done By Controlling Your ‘Attention Units’

Have you heard the term “attention unit” before? An attention unit is one little bit of space taken up in your head. Kind of like memory in your computer. Focus provides the purpose that glues together our attention and gives us what we want personally and in our business. We have all heard about the studies that have been released saying that we really are not good at multi-tasking and it does more harm than good for us. I can tell you from firsthand experience that interruptions lead to a list of unfinished tasks. Both these show that divided...

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