Recently I was watching a Ken Burns documentary on PBS the other day about the history of the National Parks in the the US (at least I was until I fell asleep).  I was shocked (but not surprised) by a photograph showing hundreds of rotting buffalo carcasses slaughtered for sport. It was an example how our ancestors managed to nearly destroy the buffalo population over a very short period of time. At that time the Great Plains must have...

Of the 11 top time wasters, the number one culprit is changing priorities. We are all our own worst enemies when it comes to this issue.  I increasingly see this caused by individuals and even corporate cultures that are addicted to urgency.  Workers jump from one issue to another like the Dutch boy plugging the leaky dike. As organizations cut staff and workers scramble to keep their jobs, urgency addiction is on the increase.  Each...