Joel T. Sanders
Track Actual Versus Planned Time in a Calendar to Improve Leadership
Planning is a key leadership quality, and leadership starts with leading yourself. Therefore, how well you plan something as simple—or...
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This Moment
Thoughts on Leadership, Technology, & Life
Joel T. Sanders
- Aug 7, 2020
- 3 min
How Would You Reinvent Your Company (or Yourself) If You Had to Start Over?
This question was posed to me in an entrepreneurs group called The 150. I faced the challenge of reinventing myself a year ago when I put...
Joel T. Sanders
- Jul 30, 2020
- 4 min
Sorry, Jeff Bezos: We Can't Eliminate Bullet Points in Our Company
I recently wrote a post on Jeff Bezos' longtime insistence that Amazon employees prepare narrative memos to guide internal meetings....
Joel T. Sanders
- Jul 24, 2020
- 4 min
Overwhelmed With Work? Congratulations, You May Be On the Way to a Breakthrough
If you're reading this, you're likely a knowledge worker who has an impossible number of projects you're juggling, and an infinite number...
Joel T. Sanders
- Jul 16, 2020
- 3 min
Talk Less and Think More in Meetings to Improve Outcomes
"Narrative structure...forces better thought and better understanding of what's more important than what, and how things are related." -...
Joel T. Sanders
- Jul 8, 2020
- 2 min
Candid Conversations With and Without the CEO in the Room
Yesterday I published an article on the psychology of sunk costs, and how entrepreneurs are particularly susceptible to throwing good...
Joel T. Sanders
- Jul 7, 2020
- 3 min
Why CEOs Are So Committed to Their Mistakes—And How a COO Can Help
The CEO's role is one of direction, lofty goals, and leadership—more emotion. COOs fall more into the camp of process, systems, and...
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