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Time Urgency - Manage It

Your readers know the symptoms: paper piling up ... incoming telephone messages ... urgent deadlines ... worry, anxiety, even fear. Face it:  time urgency creates stress. This feature explains what time urgency is all about, and shows your readers howrecognition of the problem, stop-outs and new habits can help them manage urgent tasks and stress. 752 words. [Feature 1012]

Desk Triage - Figure Out What Needs Doing Now

Your readers have heard of triage, right? That's what doctors and nurses do whenever they're presented with urgent medical issues. Your readers can use a different kind of triage - desk triage - to manage problems and needs that hit their workplaces. This article is packed with practical steps readers can take to quickly diagnose problems, attack obstacles, and set urgent priorities. 772 words. [Feature 1008]

Fight Fear with Facts

Fear is a common commodity these days. You name the challenge -- an uncertain economy, scathing competition, taxes and government regulation, the cost of technology, and more -- and your readers and members are probably facing it.

No wonder they feel fear every once in a while.

Fear can cripple. But it can also motivate. Once readers understand the origins and implications of their business fears, they can take steps to surmount them. More important, they can steps toward creative business growth. This inspiring feature explains how. 836 words. [Feature 0906]

No Parking in the Comfort Zone

It's easy for people to become parked in their personal "comfort zones." One problem, though: comfort zones don't produce professional growth or new business. No Parking in the Comfort Zone provides readers with inspirational principles they can use to move away from comfort zones to new and challenging workplace destinations -- and build success in the process. 674 words.  [Feature 0902]

Shortcuts to the Finish Line

In this challenging day and age, what often counts most is how fast and efficiently your readers can get things done.  Wise readers and managers have learned how to work smart.  They know how to cut corners without cutting quality.  They skillfully confront obstacles and move them.  Using the lessons of a competitive road race, "Shortcuts" can help your readers become more successful.  835 words.  [Feature 0811]

Patience, Please

Every one of your readers gets to a point when ... they've just had it.  Things are moving way too slowly.  It feels like time to blow.  But when those inevitable moments of impatience happen, a few simple strategies can help defuse things -- and even move matters along faster.  This brief article explains how.  554 words.  [Feature 0804]

Become a Business Superhero

Your readers' missions:  Put their businesses on the map.  Launch fantastic new products.  Solve seemingly intractable problems.  True, your readers can't lift 2,000 pounds of weight or fly through the air like eagles, but they can still emulate the lofty traits of the superheroes seen in the movies.  Here's a brief inspirational feature that explains how.  836 words.  [Feature 0708]

Fifteen Things to Accomplish in Your Life

When readers are caught up in the whirl of day-to-day business, they can easily lose sight of the things that make a profound difference in their careers and lives.  Readers who take time to ponder the future can set the stage for great things.  This provocative feature offers readers fifteen goals they should resolve to accomplish in their lives.  658 words.  [Feature 0703]

Make Procrastination Work for You

"Procrastination" ranks low on just about everyone's inventory of respectable business qualities.  Yet, once in a while, procrastination may be the best course of action -- and may even lead to a better outcome than a task completed at fever pitch.  This feature explains why and how.  803 words.  [Feature 0602]

Simplicity: Making Great Things Happen

Today's leaders and and managers can build efficiency and produce top-notch results by focusing on simplicity in the workplace.  They can't retreat to the techniques and technology of 30 years ago.  But when complex issues arise, leaders can focus workplace attention and energy on the things that really count.  The spirit of simplicity may be all around your readers, right now.  Help them learn how to release it by publishing this piece.  867 words.  [Feature 0601]