No, it is not a new coffee drink, though a bit of caffeine can be an executive’s best friend. MOCHA is a framework to help executives delegate more effectively and efficiently. If you are, like most executives, swamped with busy…
Financial advisers in small and medium-sized firms are frequently overwhelmed by all the things they must get done. It is what Investor News (IN) calls the “adviser’s curse.” “It’s the curse of feeling like you have to do everything yourself,”…
Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors in U.S. history, with a current net worth of $114 million. Buffett did not invent any products or found any companies. He and his partners bought a small textile company, Berkshire Hathaway,…
Executives looking to hire a remote virtual assistant need to ask some challenging questions about security. Take this warning, for example. “A CEO’s executive assistant is statistically more likely to be a very attacked person than the CEO,” said Ryan Kalember, cybersecurity…
“I would never have achieved what I did without learning the art of delegation,” Virgin founder and CEO Richard Branson said. Branson credits delegating tasks as key to his success. The first task he delegated was accounting—to a guy named Jack. “I wouldn’t have…
Executives spent up to 67 percent of their time in meetings before 2020, and by most accounts, that number went up during the work from home movement. Most employees experienced a 70 percent increase in meetings. One-on-one meetings increased an…
Executive productivity is a huge challenge and a big business. There are dozens of authors, speakers, podcasters, and bloggers that are ready to tell you how to do more with less, and wrest control of your business from the productivity vampires…
Most leadership productivity tips are about how individual leaders can be more productive using systems like Getting Things Done or Timeboxing. Leadership productivity is not just about the leader. Leaders that invest solely in personal productivity can make their teams less…
“We are what we repeatedly do,” the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote. “Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Well, that is true if you are repeatedly excellent. As our routines blew up in 2020 and 2021, many…
Virtual assistant services that connect U.S. businesses with offshore “virtual” employees were already popular due to advocates like Tim Ferris and his 2009 book, “The 4-Hour Work Week.” Who could resist the book’s subtitle: “Escape the 9-5, live anywhere, and…
