“Enter the Cognitive Zone with Ann Latham” – what a great title! Here is your chance to find out where you are clear and where you aren’t. Looking forward to it. Join us!
Do you believe clarity can make a huge difference in productivity? What’s your favorite example of waste caused by a lack of clarity? Here is one of mine:
You want to be collaborative and nice. I get that. But do you know when it is counterproductive? For example, what do you think is the worst way to open a meeting?
My sympathies lie with managers and knowledge workers. They are hard working, devoted, and always expected to accomplish more with less. And while you could say the same for other employees, the managers and knowledge workers face special challenges—challenges unrecognized and unappreciated by their supervisors, and even by themselves. To make these challenges crystal clear, I’ll divide the workforce into two categories based on one simple criteria:
Let me tell you about perhaps the most anti-climactic day of my life. After looking forward to the release of The Power of Clarity for more than a year, publication day finally arrived. But you know what? Not much happened.
With growing economic, political, and policy uncertainty, global competition, cyber insecurity, global warming, and pandemic fears, coupled with stock market pressure and customers who expect near perfection, is it any wonder that leaders and employees are all stressed to the max? Organizations are as lean as can be and struggling to hire. Improvement efforts such as lean manufacturing, supply chain management, new technology, and SMART goals with an emphasis on accountability have reached the point of diminishing returns. What’s next? How can we do more with less? The answer is…
I am so honored and appreciative that these amazing, busy people took the time to read my newest book and provide an endorsement!
During an interview about my new book, The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment (Bloomsbury, July 2021), for Unleashed the Podcast, Dan Weedin asked whether CEOs are naturally clear. An accompanying question distracted me and I never got a chance to answer this great question. So let me do that now.
Dan Weedin and I had a great conversation about The Power Of Clarity. It was a lot of fun – the time flew by!
