Managing a Remote Team – A Leader’s 7-Step To-Do List
In managing a remote team, leaders must create a culture of trust and open communication so your team is happy and can focus on being successful. Here's how.
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Not Mutually Exclusive: Small, Secure and Productive
In the SaaS economy, security and productivity don't have to be at odds. Here's an easy 3-step system that makes security a part of your everyday workflow.
Museum Hack’s Productivity Case Study
Here’s a productivity case study of how Museum Hack uses IDoneThis to stay on task and how they used our features to address their remote team.
Make Statistics More Meaningful By Using Fewer of Them
Using fewer statistics can your communication better and more persuasive. Avoid getting getting your message lost in a sea of data.
Managers, Are You Sabotaging Motivation at Work?
The basic elements of intrinsic motivation — autonomy, mastery, and purpose — feed basic psychological needs to produce our best work and richer lives.
Managers, Expressing Gratitude Will Make You Feel Happier
Gratitude isn't a chore for managers to make their teams happier. Managers, expressing gratitude will make your own manager happiness go up.
Managers Are Blind to How the Sausage Gets Made, Literally
Just because you think you know how the sausage is made doesn’t mean you hold the key to management dynamics in your team and company.
Open SSL Heartbleed Bug Security Update
At this time, we have no evidence that iDoneThis has been attacked or that there has been any compromise of user data. All our measures have been precautionary. We recommend that iDoneThis users change their passwords. For the Less Tech-Savvy Heartbleed is a recently uncovered security vulnerability in OpenSSL, which i
My Microsoft Experience: from Promising Start to Personal Hell
Ellen Chisa shares her experience at Microsoft, providing insight into the company culture as well as the success and failure of everyday management.
More Energy at Work! The Best of the Internet
Here's the best of the internet on how to get more energy at work.
Making Others Happy: The Best of the Internet
Pugs know best…including the best of what we shared on the interwebs this week: 5 Tips to Make the Most of Your Company Retreat. Why would you move to downtown Vegas to run your business? How do positive emotions increase longterm conversions? A beautiful slideshow on building culture on a remote team. Recognize how ev
Make Recurring Revenue and More! The Best of the Internet
How iDoneThis got to $1,000 in recurring revenue and some of the other best articles on productivity from around the web.
Management, Leading and Success: The Best of the Internet
Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!
Loneliness at Work: The Best of the Internet
Loneliness at work is everyone’s problem. Here's why and other great articles on work from around the web.
Making Happiness a Habit: The Best of the Internet
The best from around the web on how to work better and make happiness a habit at work.
Make Your Life Easier: The Best of the Internet
Make life easier with the iDoneThis weekly roundup of awesome posts we've shared this week including dull management skill, most engaged employee and more.
Make Someone Feel Valued: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly roundup of the posts we've shared this week including make some feel valued, nonprofits get stuff done, never be happy and more.
On Defense Against Power-Play Meetings
Meetings are often just power plays. Years of my life have been wasted in useless meetings. Let’s look at three useless meetings and ways we can fix them.
Nowadays, You’re Hiring People to Think
At Qualtrics, transparency is perhaps the company’s most important value for one simple and obvious reason—”Nowadays, you’re hiring individuals to think.”
Live Your Own Life!
Make progress, on your own time, on your own terms!
Listen To Your Employees
[S]top telling people what to do and … start asking them their opinion about the best way to get something done. Josh Patrick, founder of Stage 2 Planning Partners, on the value of asking and actually listening to your employees. When you ask first, you’ll learn instead of assume. And while it’s tough to trust [...]
Master Your To-Do Lists
Discover four more helpful to-do list tips and how to master the art of to-do lists by understanding why they fail.
Marc Andreessen’s Surprising Antidote to Procrastination
Marc Andreessen's solution to procrastination is devious. Instead of fighting procrastination, procrastinate away. It's called structured procrastination.
Love, Believe, Do and Live
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live. Dalai Lama