Europe has been unable to put together a comprehensive, continent wide solution to their credit crisis.  Each country is acting in their national interests and standing behind their own banks.  This makes sense. That’s what those governments were elected to do. However, this could have several important, long ranging consequences -all of which should benefit the [...]

Interruptions are the monster of time management. How many times have you been sitting at your desk trying to get your work done and in pops someone to talk? They’re not talking about anything major or important. It’s just idle chit chat. So, you chat, you get them on their way and then the phone rings. You [...]

Nowadays, more than ever, people need to have effective time management skills. This is especially important when it comes to students. Whether you’re working on your associates degree, bachelors,  graduate degree or going through job retraining, time management plays an important role in a successful educational experience. Often students are juggling numerous things. They of course [...]

The almighty scratch pad: a few simple pieces of paper. You doodle on it. You make notes. You throw it away.  Is there a more effective tool for staying organized than the scratch-pad?   The answer is yes –of course.  Organized tasks lists, project management software and to-do lists should be utilized whenever possible.  However, the scratch [...]

Wall Street really has evaporated and the commercial bank has won as the dominant business model. While I wrote about it a few days ago, who knew it would’ve come so fast -with the government actually converting the last two remaining Wall Street investment banks into commercial banks. This is great news for the American Economy.  On the one [...]

Our work week can bring with it all types of challenges.  How we deal with those challenges will affect our stress levels. By being organized and managing our time effectively, we can cut back on our stressors. Let’s take a deeper look into stress . Stress can be defined as a person’s non-specific reaction to demands placed [...]

Every once in a while I feel compelled to put my economics degree to use.  This is one of those times. There’s a tremendous amount of pain around the collapse of Lehman Brothers.  I don’t want to belittle or take attention away from that pain. I have been in two market collapses myself (Latin American stock [...]

We’ve all seen how time management can be a valuable skill for us. It helps us become better at utilizing our time wisely. However, each of us is different and therefore the way we manage time is different. Determining your time style is important so you can learn how to make your time count, reduce stress [...]

What should I do first? How do you decide what is a priority?  These questions are essential to managing time and being effective on projects.  Its important to learn how to separate to-do’s and define what are priority tasks. There are two methods that are worth looking at when trying to answer those questions: P.O.S.E.C. Method The POSEC method is an acronym [...]

Have you ever wondered where your time goes each day? Why is it that you never seem to have enough time to do the things you want to do? Where is your time going? Are you wasting it or using it wisely? These are questions that you should ask yourself if you want to manage your time [...]