The Power of the Near-Deadline Experience

Why accountability works

Accountability certainly gets results. People often complete tasks when they know they must, but even more so when they know someone is watching — whether it’s their manager, shareholders, customers or friends, not to mention spouses. 

It would be nice if we could always couple superior organisational skills with personal integrity and consistently deliver unwatched.

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The power of downtime

Does doing nothing really help?

It’s sometimes hard to throttle back at this time of the year. After all, weren’t you going to get all that stuff finished by the middle of December?

It is often the result of the goals we set 12 months ago. Nothing like a bit of a stretch, we thought at the time. There’d be time to do it. Maybe there was, maybe there wasn’t. To-do lists have a habit of getting too long.

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