Saving money is hard — a huge chunk of monthly income goes on rent, bills, travel costs, and groceries. Sometimes the extras eat away precious pennies without you even noticing. Enter the kakeibo, a Japanese “budgeting journal” that promises to help you keep an eye on your incomings and outgoings. The Japanese believe that tidiness in your finances is as important as tidiness in your home (we only need look at
September 19, 2021
Inspiring Innovation
It’s one of the toughest challenges an executive faces: How do you get your people to think creatively—to challenge the status quo—while still keeping your everyday operations running smoothly? Innovation is not like most other business functions and activities. There are no reliable templates, rules, processes, or even measures of success. In a sense, each act of innovation is a unique feat, a leap of the individual—or the collective—imagination that
September 19, 2021
You Can Achieve More With Less by Pursuing The Vital Few Instead of The Trivial Many
Your most important tasks guarantee better and faster results Many of us work in an endless stream of tasks, emails, notifications, meetings, multitasking in the process, never pausing and never-ending. Pursuing more and more every day. Left unchecked, our to-do lists can get overwhelming. You can only make the most of limited resources like time and energy if you deliberately pursue few things you can do better instead of trying