How Travis CI Is Fixing Company Culture By Taking On ‘Culture’
Mathias Meyer, CEO at Travis CI, started to notice a problem with “culture fit” and the way company culture was implemented at many companies.
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How To Obsess Over Customers Like Jeff Bezos
Bezos is famously customer-focused. “Obsess over customers,” he says. Some obsess over competition, Bezos has consistently chose to obsess over customers.
How To Keep Great Employees Once You Conquer The World
Keep great employees from leaving the company by thinking like Google. Focus on meaningful work and hire great people.
How to Transition to Working From Home
Working from home — remote working, telecommuting — isn't easy. But with the right approach, working from home can work for you.
How to Have a Great First Day at Your New Job
The first day at a new job is intimidating, and can be scary. But thanks to some great advice from smart experts, you can make sure your first day is great.
Integrate Everything—Introducing iDoneThis for Zapier
We've connected iDoneThis with Zapier to make it easy to integrate iDoneThis with the 400+ apps that Zapier integrates with.
iDoneThis for Mobile
iDoneThis is now easy to use on mobile. Here's how to set up a home screen shortcut for your phone or tablet.
Introducing Goals for iDoneThis
Create goals in iDoneThis to plan your day with ease. Just write "[]" before your entry to create a goal on the web or in email. Check it off with a click.
Introducing iDoneThis for Slack
iDoneThis for Slack is an easy way to log your accomplishments without leaving Slack. Just type /done with what you got done!
How to Manage by Doing Nothing
Doing nothing is one of the most effective ways to manage according to legendary manager Andy Grove of Intel. Here's why and how to manage by doing nothing.
How to Work Quietly
Work's gotten incredibly noisy and that can kill your productivity. Here's why quiet work will make you more creative and how to work quietly in an office.
How to Go Beyond Trust Falls to Strengthen Your Team’s Camaraderie
Detachment and disengagement are huge problems at work. Here's how to go beyond the cliche and build genuine team trust and camaraderie in your company.
How to Finally Make Peace With Your To-Do List
We found that a whopping 85% of dones were unplanned tasks that didn't originate from to-do lists — but that doesn't mean you haven't been productive.
How to Perform 20% Better By Doing Less Work
Instead of chasing a feeling of being productive by conquering more items on your to-do list, you should be harnessing the power of self-reflection.
How to Trick Yourself into Making Real Progress
Progress is so alluring that even the illusion of forward steps increases drive. Take advantage of how progress motivates to kick-start your productivity.
How to Short-Circuit Procrastination by Starting Before You’re Ready
It's easy to get stuck in analysis paralysis. Louis C.K.'s 70% rule of decision-making is one solution to stop procrastinating and finally get started.
How to Stop Working Too Much and Live Your Life
The key to being happier and more productive is to not work all the time. The surprising solution is to spend time thinking about work — with a work diary.
How Tony Hsieh Inspired Long-Term Motivation to Grow Zappos Culture
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh corralled his employees over the long haul of translating his vision into reality by inspiring long-term motivation.
How To Make Small Teams Actually Work With Terrible Communication
Amazon is a mess. They do a lot of things totally wrong. But they make up for it (and then some) by getting team communication really, really right.
How to Tell When A Manager Is Really Productive
The tricky thing about manager productivity is that it looks like you're not getting anything done. That's why you have to redefine your productivity.
How to Hire Like Jeff Bezos
In Amazon's early days, Jeff Bezos held uncompromising standards that made it tough to hire. Yet how he hired made Amazon the success it is today.
How to Get Your Team to Deliver
Team aimlessness corrodes motivation and results in stalled projects, avoided emails, the checked-out employee. Here's how to corral and manage it.
How to Keep Believing in Yourself
As an entrepreneur, you're living a confidence roller coaster. Here's how to keep believing in yourself and overcome doubt with gratitude and perspective.
How to Get More Out of Your Team Without Being a Micromanaging Jerk
As a boss or manager, you can’t do it all by micromanaging. The only way to grow is by building systems within which your team can thrive.