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Management · 2 min read

Get It Done: The Best of the Internet

Here’s the weekly round-up of the best of the blog & links we’ve shared on the interwebs! Happy Friday! We wrote The Art of Getting Stuff Done without Bossing Around last week but shh, we’re sneaking it into this round-up. Find out how Any.DO, a start-up that made a task management app, uses us to get [...]

Productivity · 2 min read

Find Joy in your Work: The Best of the Internet

Here’s the weekly round-up of the best of the blog & links we’ve shared on the interwebs! We have a guest blog post over at Buffer on the science behind what motivates us to work hard. How we help Reddit get stuff done. Mike Sun wrote about security and Google/OpenID Integrations. We wrote about how we [...]

Management · 2 min read

Habits of Success: The Best of the Internet

Have a lovely weekend folks! And here’s a round-up of the best stuff we’ve shared on our blog, Twitter, and Facebook: 17 women startup leaders name their role models. The significance of company culture. What do successful people do the first hour of their day? Spend more time in the bathroom.

Productivity · 2 min read

Granting Your Employees With Autonomy

Daniel Pink, in the Washington Post, argues that we need more renewable motivation. We create this by giving employees autonomy. Read more about it here.

Productivity · 2 min read

Have a Good Day!

Have an awesome day everybody! And for those of you in the U.S., a happy 4th!

Focus · 2 min read

Focus and Ignore Lists

The key to success is not just focusing on what’s important but knowing what to ignore, to say “No” to. Here's how and why you should create an ignore list.

Productivity · 2 min read

Get More Done with Dundee Living in Your Chrome

We’re now in the Google Chrome Store! Add iDoneThis to Chrome, and Dundee will live on your Chrome home screen. His mere presence will encourage you in everything you’re getting done. From there, you can launch iDoneThis with one click. If you haven’t made iDoneThis your home page yet (tsk tsk!), this is the next best

Productivity · 2 min read

Get Up and Do Something

Look familiar? Wendy MacNaughten To Do print captures the anxiety of what she calls the “meta to-do place” that we end up creating: ”We overthink how and when and what, and don’t just get the eff up and Do Something.” What would your To Do diagram look like? Create your own! Or…

Productivity · 2 min read

GetWorkDoneMusic: The Productivity Playlist

GetWorkDoneMusic is a webapp by Ryan Ghods that plays music to help you get your work done … fast, or faster. The mostly electronic music is randomly pulled from SoundCloud playlists, and you can replay tracks you like, or skip to the next one. What’s on your productivity playlist?

Motivation · 2 min read

How Do You Want To Be Remembered?

http://vimeo.com/8480171 It’s almost 2012. How do you want to be remembered? What “Dones” will it take to accomplish that? (Source: http://vimeo.com/)

Management · 8 min read

How Managers Can 10X Their Productivity with Writing

Managing a team well requires expert communication. Holding meetings and using project management software systems do not equate to effective management. Effective management means aligning your team through goals, inspiring them to do good work, and seamlessly transferring knowledge from person to person and team to t

Management · 6 min read

How to cultivate a culture of open feedback

Giving feedback can be terrifying. You’re often afraid of being too direct and setting a team member on the defensive. Or you’re worried that you’ll temper criticism with too much praise — losing your message in translation. Because giving feedback is difficult, people often do the exact wrong thing and avoid giving fe