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The Friday Grab Bag: Three others’ posts to read (May 29th)

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Three posts I enjoyed this week, all speaking to a different aspect of doing more Great Work:

1. Distracted?

My friend Anna Sonser pointed me to this revealing piece from the New Yorker magazine, talking about how our lives seem to be getting more fragmented and disjointed and distracting – and how all sorts of people (that you’d never suspect) are medicating themselves to increase their focus. You might be thinking – I’d never do that. But if everyone around you is suddenly hyper-focused and productive, what then?

2. No. Just say No. No, No No.

Seth riffing on one of my favourite themes: the cost of not saying No.

Here is how Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, does it.

3. The art of Great Work

Kyra’s the one that did that great caricature of me. She’s now a seaglass artist, and this is a lovely meditation on what she’s learned about Great Work in producing her beautiful pieces.

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Posted on May 29, 2009
Posted in self-management

One Response to The Friday Grab Bag: Three others’ posts to read (May 29th)

  1. Eduard says:
    June 1, 2009 at 11:24 am

    Useful resource around to what and how to say NO is work of William Ury: The power of a positive No.
    Many people hesitate to say No, because they do not know how to say No. What William Ury recommends and helps me a lot is to split the task: First to decide that the answer is No and then to think and prepare HOW to say it.