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Project Management: The Right Team = Project Steam

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 20, 2019
3 min

Project Management: The Right Team = Project Steam

Take the time to build the right team and your project will practically propel itself. Here’s how: Create an Ideal Team Member Profile...

Emotional Intelligence in Project Management: Recognize Don’t Demonize

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 6, 2019
4 min

Emotional Intelligence in Project Management: Recognize Don’t Demonize

The heart of project management is having sufficient common sense, humanity and emotional intelligence to effectively interact with a...

Help Your Brain Better Encode and Recall Important Information

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 29, 2019
4 min

Help Your Brain Better Encode and Recall Important Information

Before I developed the Formula 5 system, I was overwhelmed by ideas. Couldn’t keep them straight. Then I watched Peter Doolittle’s TED...

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 18, 2019
1 min

The Late Adopter

I am a human who, by marketing industry definition is a “late adopter.” I enjoy 21st century digital technology as long as it enhances...

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 13, 2019
2 min

Jack Up Your Creativity

Years ago I attended Boston’s Open Studio Weekend. At the time, I was living in an artist colony in Hartford, Connecticut. This was a...

Gremlins: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 7, 2019
3 min

Gremlins: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

Emineggs Benedict Named for writer Marshall Mathers III (a/k/a Eminem), this recipe encourages you to embrace, not censor your dark side....

“You Are the Sum of the Five People You Spend the Most Time with.”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 20, 2019
2 min

“You Are the Sum of the Five People You Spend the Most Time with.”

Motivational guru Jim Rohn’s observation is a game changer. The key variable in Rohn’s equation is exposure to clean energy: Thoughts....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 13, 2019
2 min

Sleep Your Way to the Top

If you think “sleep is a waste of time” as a colleague once told me during my corporate years, then you are missing out on one of most...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Feb 6, 2019
2 min

The Art of Sloth

In 2017, after deeply focusing on my 12th book, The Writer’s Toy Chest, I seriously needed a break. I spent much of the following day...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 30, 2019
2 min

Bore Into Boredom

If you are bored with something after two minutes, keep doing it for four minutes. If you stay bored, do it for eight, then sixteen...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 16, 2019
3 min

Don’t Force a Schedule, Honor a Rhythm

A big part of managing energy for peak performance is letting go of workhorse mentality: you must take breaks. Otherwise you flame out....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 3, 2019
1 min

Be Ruthless

Grant yourself permission. To not wash dishes, do laundry, answer every email, take the call every time the phone rings, text back every...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 26, 2018
1 min

The Voices Inside Your Head

Trust them. Make nice. Don’t denigrate, suppress or spend too much time analyzing them. Rather, befriend and use them to advantage....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 19, 2018
5 min

The Muse, the Posse and Keeping it Hot

When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 12, 2018
2 min

Innovation Markers: The Write Metric

◊ ◊ ◊ Not everything that can be counted matters and not everything that matters can be counted. William Bruce Cameron ◊ ◊ ◊ Page count,...

Purse Prompts: Getting Carried Away with Writing

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 5, 2018
2 min

Purse Prompts: Getting Carried Away with Writing

The purse. Women love to buy them, talk about them, and brag about their attributes. We compliment each other on them, ask if we can...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 28, 2018
2 min

As Whales Do

Gina Greenlee photo: Whale watching on New Zealand’s Kaikoura Coast, June 2000 ◊ ◊ ◊ Years ago, while still new in my journey of teaching...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 21, 2018
1 min

Do It For Love

Get Excited Often, when we set out to “WRITE” we stumble because we are removed from the writing itself. We approach it like a 10th grade...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 14, 2018
3 min

Golf, Bob Dylan, and How to Lead

Fortune Magazine, December 2016 issue; How to Lead Like Zuck by Adam Lashinsky: “Ideas typically do not just come to you,” said Mark...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 7, 2018
2 min

Perfume, Street Gangs and Vampires

So what if your idea isn’t “new.” Don’t be afraid to take a new swing at an old ball. The 1937 Hungarian play, Parfumerie by Miklos...