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    GTD Cafe: Filling the Leadership Void with Next Action Thinking

    May 28th, 2008 by thedailysaint

    Posted in GTD, Goal Setting, Management |

    If you're new here, Welcome! To learn more about what this site is all about click here [link].

    Connect with Stephen at LinkedIn - Click hereProductivity Tools and DIY Calendars - Click hereI am a small business Conversation Consultant and public speaker that uses the power of the internet to leverage your success. Productivity in Context is a web magazine focused on Productivity and tools for organizing. Make this your headquarters for improving your life and work through increased mindfulness, education, and workflow practices.

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    Thanks for visiting!

    If you haven’t caught up with Leadership Journal in a while, their recent edition focuses on teams and how they lead. I was especially fascinated by an article about how one church went from a one pastor model to a team approach of four men who lead together.

    Can you imagine if every church was led by four instead of one? Blows your mind doesn‘t it?

    The featured church, Next Level Church in Denver, explained how their model allows for deeper service, more humility, greater accountability and a healthy buffer in case one leader falls. It also allows for a community to get things done. Maybe, just maybe, it decreases the amount of ‘leadership complaining’.

    All of us complain about our leaders. I just wish they would do more of this… Why can’t he be more like… It drives me crazy when… When you practice GTD, you are putting next-action thinking into play. You stop looking around and wondering why it isn‘t moving fast enough and

    you
    start
    making it happen.

    This of course builds you up as someone who actually produces results. You are then able to do the work of four instead of one.

    If you found this post useful, please share it with your friends on Twitter using the tinylink http://tinyurl.com/5a8e23. Thanks, I appreciate it! Feel free to comment below, I enjoy discussing these ideas. ~@Stephen


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    Turning Adversity into Success

    May 24th, 2008 by Stephen

    Posted in Blogger Interviews, Entrepreneur, Follow Your Dream, Management |

    My friend Stephen Hopson was interviewed for the Tuscon Citizen:

    Bruzzese: Turn adversity into dreams come true

    Hopson’s new career is based upon the premise that he knows how to take adversity and turn it into success, and he believes that it is a message many people want to hear from just a regular guy faced with his share of obstacles.

    Years of scandals in the corporate world have soured audiences on pep talks from well-paid executives, but the skepticism softens when a speaker like myself who wears a hearing aid and speaks with a ‘distinctive voice’ walks onstage and talks about overcoming adversity,” he says.

    The fact that I have never heard a sound in my life, and yet managed to build a successful career … brings tremendous credibility to the table. After people hear me speak, they cannot possibly go back to work making excuses for themselves.”

    Stephen is an awesome individual, and I do not say that lightly. Check out his site and stop making excuses!

    If you found this post useful, please share it with your friends on Twitter using the tinylink http://tinyurl.com/5slc26. Thanks, I appreciate it! Feel free to comment below, I enjoy discussing these ideas. ~@Stephen


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    Making Changes

    May 21st, 2008 by Stephen

    Posted in Links, Management |

    I have a guest post up at Slacker Manager, please check it out here:

    Strategy for Making Changes

    Thank you for your support, I’d love to hear what you think.

    If you found this post useful, please share it with your friends on Twitter using the tinylink http://tinyurl.com/6c5a27. Thanks, I appreciate it! Feel free to comment below, I enjoy discussing these ideas. ~@Stephen


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    Guest Posting at Slacker Manager

    May 15th, 2008 by Stephen

    Posted in Management, Work 2.0 |

    I have a guest post up at Slacker Manager about Performance-based Interviewing. Check it out, if you would.

    If you found this post useful, please share it with your friends on Twitter using the tinylink http://tinyurl.com/5vxewo. Thanks, I appreciate it! Feel free to comment below, I enjoy discussing these ideas. ~@Stephen


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