The Blog of Ryan Wiggins

The Blog of Ryan Wiggins

thoughts about leadership, philosophy, health, productivity, and doing work that matters

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  • It’s better to initiate

    It’s better to initiate

    I recently listened to Seth Godin’s Tribes on audio book. It is… amazing! I’m going to listen again, and again, and probably again. I think that you should too. What sits with me after having listened this first time are his ideas about how we, as leaders, should take action. Most people, he says, react. […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    October 4, 2017
    Leadership
    Leadership, Personal Development
  • How to become the “go-to” person for important projects

    How to become the “go-to” person for important projects

    We were once limited by our existing skill set. We were locked into our speciality. If you were trained in preparing budget reports, you prepared budget reports. If you were really good at writing copy, you wrote copy. If you were a project manager, you managed projects. There was very little room to move outside […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    August 30, 2017
    Leadership
    Leadership
  • Stop Being So Inclusive

    Stop Being So Inclusive

    Management has experienced a strong shift in recent decades toward empowering individuals and teams to lead and problem solve. Like any important change, there’s a danger of going too far. Don’t get me wrong. As a manager I do all I can to empower my people to lead and problem solve. But, there also comes […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    June 4, 2017
    Leadership
    Leadership
  • 3 Epic Time Management Techniques for New Freelancers

    3 Epic Time Management Techniques for New Freelancers

    Freelancing is a tough business. Don’t get me wrong, escaping restrictive office hours and horrible bosses and embracing the creative freedom that comes with doing what you love and are truly good at makes it all worthwhile. But, at the end of the day, it’s still work and tough work at that. As a freelancer […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    August 6, 2016
    Productivity
    habitbuilding, How-To, Productivity, Working Smarter
  • It’s OK to procrastinate

    It’s OK to procrastinate

    I’ve struggled with procrastination my whole life. When I was young, I wasn’t called a procrastinator, I was called lazy. I even referred to myself as lazy. I recently had a realisation that I think all so-called ‘procrastinators’ should have. One that’s changed the way I look at my work and the way I do […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    June 28, 2016
    Habit Building, Productivity
    habitbuilding, How-To, Productivity, Working Smarter
  • How to make a dent: on success in the new era of work

    How to make a dent: on success in the new era of work

    The days of ‘cog-in-the-machine’ employment is coming to an end. As the information economy grows and develops, people who can do more than shift a lever or press a button on a production line are more important than ever. But, what is it exactly that we need people, in this new era of work, to […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    April 25, 2016
    Leadership
    How-To, Leadership
  • Manage your energy, not your time

    Manage your energy, not your time

    In the early pages of their book The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz share a turning point in the trajectory of their business working with world class athletes. After years of helping athletes perform consistently at a high level under competitive pressure, Jim and Tony were invited by a number of […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    March 27, 2016
    Productivity
    Productivity, Working Smarter
  • What Michael Jordan can teach you about career success

    What Michael Jordan can teach you about career success

    In 2003, two of the greatest ever to play the game of basketball faced off in the NBA Allstar Game: Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. The old school and the new school battled in what would, in hindsight, become a passing of the crown from one king to the next. At one point in the […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    March 15, 2016
    Success
  • What is leadership?

    What is leadership?

    Leadership is hard to pin down. Leadership means something different to everyone. Leadership is fluid. Leadership is a social construct. Leadership is what it needs to be at the time. Leadership is the execution of a set of values. Leadership has lots of different moving parts. Though I’ve tried, I can’t find a way to […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    February 26, 2016
    Leadership
  • What do you want your legacy to be?

    What do you want your legacy to be?

    When you move on from your current job, what kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? It’s a tough question to answer, likely because you’ve never really thought about it before. You should though. And, here’s why. So many of us make the mistake of letting our careers happen to us, rather than being proactive and […]

    Ryan Wiggins

    December 2, 2015
    Leadership, Personal Development
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