Our workplaces have become progressively less rigid and structured over the past few decades, but particularly over the past several years. Our time is chopped up into smaller units, and the demands on our attention and energy grow exponentially. Self management becomes a progressively more important skill set in this type of environment, approaching your primary skill set. One powerful and necessary practice is to read outside your immediate field, and allow the concepts of others to stimulate your imagination. One of my favorite resources for this is the Harvard Business Review. There … [Read more...] about Managing Yourself Part 1