10×10 Business Success Challenge

What Is Kaizen? (Increasing Productivity Through Continuous Improvement)

[Note: This is a continuation of the January Increasing Productivity challenge for the 10x10 Thing--If you have any thoughts on what you’d like future months to focus on, let me know :)] Surprisingly, getting into the groove with my system for increasing productivity has been a lot easier than I remember it being. Perhaps that’s more

My System for Increasing Productivity (Taught to Me By a Psychologist and Grad School Professor)

This month, I’m focusing on increasing productivity. (I polled readers here for my 10×10 monthly challenge, and productivity was the winner–let me know if you have any suggestions for future months) Back in grad school, a friend and I were on the verge of a nervous breakdown at the thought of doing a thesis while more

Are You Ready to Dunk on the New Year? (2012 – The Year of the Baller)

(photo from a silly sticker I saw on a wall in Tokyo) So, 2011 turned out to be a mixed bag of successes and challenges. And, although the taste of Top Ramen is started to grow on me, I have decided that I’m going to earn a decent living online no matter what it takes more

Your Choice Matters (Help Me Choose the Direction for This Blog)

Okay, so I’ve gotten some positive feedback for the 10×10 thing (getting a group of people together who are interested in challenging themselves to do 10 things 10 times more in 2012). It seems like there are a lot of things that people really want to work on, without a definitive clear winner. So, I’m more