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.
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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
Monday Pep Talk from Kid President
You’ve just been Monday (kid)pep-talked! What would be your Space Jam? What will you create to make the world awesome? … If we can make every day better for each other, if we’re all on the same team, let’s start acting like it. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Magnifying Successes, Not Disappointments
A little inspiration on magnifying successes not disappointments.
MyHarto’s (Hilarious!) Productivity Tricks
Some productivity mind tricks from Hannah Hart. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Make This Year Matter: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly round up of posts we've made this week including year that matters, multiple startups, give up email and more.
Making Your To-Do List Work
Here's how to rework your to-do list using if-then planning. It's a planning strategy that helps automate a desired action with cues and context.
Motivation and Self-Discipline: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly round up of posts we've made this week including motivation and self-discipline, socially conscious startups, digital village and more
Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient
Marc Andreessen has a surprising trick to feeling productive. He keeps a daily anti-todo list, which is a list of everything he's accomplished.
Pablo Picasso on Inspiration
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” — Pablo Picasso Hope inspiration, or at least some ice cream, finds you working today!
Make Employees feel like Superheroes: 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! How Mozilla uses iDoneThis to communicate and create. The key to building an awesome team? Make employees feel like superheroes. Stillpower, not willpower, is the key to flow and getting in the zone. In case you [...
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Software
How your software tools work may be interrupting your employees' maker's schedule. Here's how to collaborate without disruption from constant notifications.
Neil Gaiman on Making Mistakes
Cheers to mistakes! Here’s the full quote about making mistakes from the excellent Neil Gaiman’s blog, totally worth reading before you get back to doing: Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. Yo
Maira Kalman and the Creative Process
You also have to have perseverance – and maybe that’s the hardest thing, to persevere and to believe that what you’re doing is worth doing – and to do it, rather than talking about doing it. Maira Kalman talks to 99u about work and overcoming the challenges of the creative process. Her daily routine expressly [...]
MIT Increased Productivity and Reduced Meetings by 3x
The engineering team at MIT's Office of Digital Learning wanted to adopt a scrum-based agile methodology for software development.
Nevada State College Reduced Status Updates on Tenure Annual Review by 50%
Gregory Robinson, PH.D., Department Chair of Humanities at Nevada State College, was searching for a productivity tool to help him better track his accomplishments throughout the busy academic year.
No Matter How Slow You Go …
Be proud of every little effort!
Mark Lesek: A New/Old Prosthetic
Here’s some Monday inspiration from the story of Mark Lesek and his project to make a better, more affordable prosthetic arm to improve the lives of amputees. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a bike or an arm or a life. If you can take it apart, if you can understand it, you can make it [...]
New Year’s Habits
We probably didn’t need scientists to actually come up with a figure (80% failure rate!) to know that New Year’s resolutions don’t stick around. The key to change is not making some grand declaration of an ideal, that this is the year you’re going to lose x number of pounds, stop procrastinating, find Princess Charming