Mark Donovan & Associates – News & Blog Section

Do you have thinking time in your weekly schedule?
One of the most important areas I work with my clients is getting them to put thinking time into their calendars. I would be a great guy if I always took my own advice! I suggest they put 1 hour of thinking time into their calendar per week. And to make this hour as...
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Are you dealing with the symptoms of stress, or the cause of stress?
It has become very clear that many people in our society are under constant and destructive stress. As life for them operates at a pace that offers little time for rest or recuperation. The costs related to stress are astronomical in the health care industry as we...
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Are you an effective decision maker?
As a leadership consultant, one of the main areas that I work with my clients is in helping them become highly effective decision-makers. My definition of a highly effective decision-maker is being 100% willing to hold yourself responsible for your circumstances and...
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Are you suffering from Behavioural Insanity?
Many of us are guilty of a form of behavioural insanity. We go into situations all the time. But rely on the same behaviours. Do we assess each situation and think, what am I trying to accomplish? Why is that difficult? Which behaviours in my repertoire are most...
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Are you utilizing your greatest opportunity for business performance?
It has become almost a truism today in business that our people resource is of all economic resources, the one least effectively used. Our greatest opportunity for improved economic performance lies in the improvement of the effectiveness of our people in their work....
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Do you have an incredible standard of living but a low quality of life?
6575 – this is the number of days in the first eighteen years of our child’s life. No amount of success, money or prestige can buy us one more day. The door of childhood shuts so quickly if our child is ten years old, we have 2922 days left! Most people say that they...
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Hold up the Mirror…….
As leaders, we need to ‘challenge the perception of ourselves’. When a large gap exists between how we see ourselves and how others see us, this leads to ‘leadership blind spots. This is why feedback from others is so important, it’s like a mirror that allows us to...
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Avoiding the Deferred Life Plan
Retirement as a goal or final redemption is flawed for at least one very solid reason. It is based on the assumption that we dislike what we are doing, during the most physically capable years of our lives. This makes about as much sense as saving up sex for old...
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Beware of the Ostrich Effect !
When it comes to dealing with underperformance in business many leaders act like the Ostrich. They put their head in the sand hoping the problem will go away. But, if we avoid dealing with the underperformance problem, will it go away? No, it will only get worse and...
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Are you landing on your moon?
There has been a lot of media coverage recently about the anniversary of the first landing on the moon. When NASA launches a moon shot, there is more energy expended in the first few minutes just getting the rocket off the launch pad, then it takes to propel the...
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