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The Acceleration Trap

By Mark Green | Published: April 12, 2010

How to Avoid Company Burnout
In the current issue of The Harvard Business Review, authors Heike Bruch and Jochen Menges explore the root causes of “The Acceleration Trap” – never-ending, hard-charging activity and change inside an organization – and offer practical solutions to avoid it.
Although their change and growth strategies often succeed brilliantly for a while, [...]

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Take Back Control of Your Time

By Mark Green | Published: January 13, 2010

How do you spend your time?
This question is painfully simple, yet it plays a major role in the execution of your firm’s vision and priorities. Sadly, many leaders cannot accurately answer it. You may be surprised to find a sizable disconnect between your top priorities and how you actually spend your time.
People take their cues [...]

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3 Tools to Create Focus & Improve Performance

By Mark Green | Published: August 17, 2009

In today’s mile-a-minute, e-connected, global, frenetic, here-today-gone-tomorrow world of commerce, it is no surprise that many of us don’t take enough time to select and focus on our most important business objectives. Whether you employ 4 or 400, crystal clear focus combined with a steady cadence of accountability will dramatically improve your competitive positioning [...]

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Time Management in Wonderland

By Mark Green | Published: February 19, 2008

“Warning!  Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.” 
Now wouldn’t that be a handy reminder on the welcome screen of your PDA or in your date book? Time is not given to us; rather, it is only made available to us.  As a non-renewable resource, time is – quite literally – here today and gone [...]

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