I can't sleep…
Sitting is the Smoking of our Generation:
I’ve been slacking on the “Lead” part of “Lead.Learn.Live.” I’ve been distracted with “Premium” Hot Chocolate, Grilled Cheese sandwiches and painted pumpkins inspired by Jackson Pollock. Here’s one of two leadership primers to kick off the coming week.
The Harvard Business Review authors of Does Management Really Work? conducted research over a 10-year period involving thousands of organizations to determine whether companies adhere to three practices that are considered essential elements of good management. Before we get to the 3 basic elements, two of the key findings of this research were:
1) Many organizations throughout the world are very badly managed…
2) Effective Management execution on the basic practices is strongly correlated with better results
Take a pause before hitting the “read more” link. (I’ve already done it…so play along.) What exactly are these 3 essential management practices?
Nick Crocker, a personal coach who helps people lead more active lives, had an excellent post in the HBR Blog Network called Find Exercise in Life’s Margins. Here’s a few excerpts:
“You consider yourself a fit, active person. But, like most busy professionals, you want to exercise more…And then time and again, life just gets in the way. You’re too busy. You work too late…You book a breakfast meeting. You have work and social commitments that you just can’t miss. And in all the chaos, exercise gets squeezed out. This, in reality, is most people’s experience of exercise.
The reality is, those spare hours in the week are not going to materialize. We need to come up with a different solution. The key is to find exercise in the daily flow of your life. Doing so will boost your productivity, performance and job satisfaction.”
Continue reading “Missed your work out yesterday? (this week? this month?) Forgetaboutit…”
