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Leadership and Laws of Productivity By Michael Sliwinski, Editor
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his is issue #7 of your trusty productivity magazine. This is the January/Feburary issue and we’re aiming to bring you a fresh new issue of Productive! Magazine every two months this year and we’ll see how it goes. Here’s to great 2011!
Meet Michael Hyatt I’ve been following Michael for more than 5 years, back in the day when we were both using Toshiba M200 TabletPCs and he was already a recognized blogger with his “Working Smart” blog. Reading his blogs and accepting his guidance
and advice, he became my role model – a successful business person (CEO of one of the biggest publishing companies in the world), a leader and blogger (just check out his blog), a family man and a father (with 5 daughters and loving wife), a productivity guru and technology geek (now you tell me we don’t have a lot in common) and a practicing Christian (being Catholic I’m a follower of Christ myself). You might know Michael for his contributions to this magazine in the past. This time around he is contributing directly as the interviewee for this issue of
the magazine. Last November on my business trip to the USA we finally met in person over lunch and we had a great time getting to know each other. I asked him to do an interview later on and he agreed. It’s a great read as you’ll learn from Mike a lot about leadership, productivity, work–life balance and how it all relates to personal health, too.
Laws and rules of Productivity This issue’s theme is around certain laws of productivity that we need to obey to be more productive. Pat Brans teaches us the law of being present, Chris Ed-
! Links: Michael on Twitter | Productive! Firm web site | Michael Sliwinski’s Blog: “Internet Business Productivity”