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798 articles · Page 19 of 34

Management · 2 min read

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/)

Productivity · 2 min read

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.

Productivity · 2 min read

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!

Management · 2 min read

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 [...

Productivity · 2 min read

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

Productivity · 2 min read

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 [...]

Productivity · 2 min read

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 [...]

Productivity · 2 min read

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

Productivity · 2 min read

Manage Your Energy

To maximize performance, manage your energy. (Source: http://vimeo.com/)

Time · 7 min read

Matthew Stibbe, Founder of Turbine & CEO of Articulate Marketing

Matthew Stibbe is the CEO of Articulate Marketing, a marketing copywriting agency, and founder of Turbine, an online application that helps businesses take care of administrative issues, to “take the paper out of paperwork.” In what he calls his spare time, he’s learning Dutch and blogging about flying and about writin

Productivity · 8 min read

Non-Technical Founder Feature Launch in Three Weeks

I’ve recently spoken with technical founders who’ve complained about their non-technical co-founders who refuse to do or learn anything technical, and it’s struck a nerve. One technical founder told me, “My co-founder refuses to learn the most basic SQL so that they can pull analytics on their own.” As the…

Productivity · 2 min read

On Living the Dream

I’m often surprised by how often I meet VCs/investors who seem to express interest in hearing my personal story of how I ended up going from being a math nerd to working as a big firm corporate lawyer to running a startup. I remember telling Brad Burnham at Union Square…