“Let’s stay focused. We’re expending too much sideways energy on this.” Sideways energy is a term commonly used to indicate a lack of focus and productivity. Some examples of sideways energy include the following: Unresolved issues Meetings that go nowhere Open-ended discussions with no determined action plans “Busyness” instead of productivity Unplanned time Misallocated […]

  In a day where “hard travel” means a delayed flight or long lines at the airport, it is hard to imagine what the pioneers of yesteryear endured in their travels to the Western frontier. We get a sense of what it was like in the old western movies, but only a sense. In the […]