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There Are People Who Literally Cannot Start A Project Until The Deadline Is Four Hours Away, Even If It's A Big One. And Those People Have A Serious Problem. My Recommendation Is Set Up Mini-deadlines. You Might Say, 'okay, Here's My Deadline After Three Days For This And There's Another Deadline For That And Then A Third Deadline.

If Employees Need To Stay Late In Order To Curry Favor With The Boss, What Motivation Do They Have To Get Work Done During Normal Business Hours? After All, They Can Put In The Requisite 'face Time' Whether They Are Surfing The Internet Or Analyzing Customer Data.

I Am A Great Believer In The Ohio Principle: Only Handle It Once. When You Read An E-mail, Decide Whether Or Not To Reply To It, And, If You Need To Reply, Do So Right Then And There. I Have Found That About 80 Percent Of All E-mails, Whether Internal Or External, Do Not Require A Response.

Priorities Are The Yearly Goals That I'm Most Interested In Achieving, Then They Become Operationalized Through Weekly Goals.

Wall Street Is At Best Ambivalent. The Size Of The Accounts Is Nothing Big. How Many Wall Street Firms Do You Know That Are Running After People With $5,000 Accounts?