Do you find yourself sending an email, leaving a voicemail and texting your message just to make sure you get through? With such a wide repertoire of communication options, we should be communicating more effectively, not less.

Are you buried underneath your own organization system? Do your categories, folders, tags, and lists confuse more than direct? When do all your organizational tools merely become your next mess?

More features does not mean getting more done. Do you spend more time writing your report or formatting it? More time using your software or learning how to use it?

Do you work for your tools or do they work for you? Instead of shopping features and prices, what if you chose your technology based on a better understanding of your own needs?

What disincentives to taking the initiative and achieving results would a stranger observe in your company?

What if you measured your effectiveness as a leader by the effectiveness of your team? Who do you really work for?

Whose skills, capacities and energies are you quenching if you have to know more than everyone else on the team?

What if the problem were merely a symptom of something deeper needing attention? What questions would you ask?

How might you be a part of the problem? Are you inadvertently confusing isolation with competence?

Instead of engaging the expertise of those on the job and in business, political leaders battle with each other from abstract, partisan philosophies, making decisions with sweeping implications for which they have no means of anticipating and no intention of evaluating.