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What is Micro-Mentoring?

Discover how micro-mentoring provides focused, short-term guidance for busy managers and business owners looking to empower their teams.

4 min Aug 6, 2025

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What is Inbox Zero?

Learn what Inbox Zero is and how this rigorous email management method helps busy managers reduce stress and improve team productivity through better communication.

4 min Jul 26, 2025

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What is Eat That Frog?

Learn how the Eat That Frog productivity method helps managers and business owners prioritize difficult tasks to reduce stress and improve team focus.

4 min Jul 25, 2025

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The Illusion of Motion: Why Being Busy is the Most Dangerous Form of Laziness

A deep dive into the Pareto Principle for small business owners. We analyze why we gravitate toward low-value tasks and how to ruthlessly identify and execute the 20% of work that drives 80% of revenue.

Ben Schmidt 7 min Jul 5, 2025

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What is The Urgency Illusion?

An exploration of why managers mistake busy work for important work and how to shift focus back to strategic business growth.

5 min Jun 16, 2025

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The Calendar as a Crime Scene: How Bad Meetings Are Stealing Your Company's Future

A comprehensive guide to fixing meeting culture. We explore the cost of bad meetings, how to implement effective stand-ups, and the shift to asynchronous communication to reclaim productivity.

Ben Schmidt 6 min Apr 4, 2025

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Alternatives to Pomodoro: Why Your Brain Needs More Than a Kitchen Timer

Explore the Loop-odoro method, a powerful alternative to the Pomodoro technique designed for professionals in high-stakes environments who need to maximize retention and minimize distraction.

6 min Feb 18, 2025

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What is the True Cost of the 'No Time to Train' Excuse?

A strategic analysis for business managers on overcoming time constraints for training. We break down the math of micro-learning and the risks of neglecting team development.

7 min Feb 2, 2025

The SOP they learned six months ago is already fading.

Death of the Binder