One Done at a Time
Check out the beautiful infographic below on our how brains adapt to multi-tasking. New reports find that high-multi-taskers are “lousy at everything required for multi-tasking.”
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Pablo Picasso on Inspiration
Picasso’s take on that easily forgotten motto that genius is 99% perspiration!
Painless Timekeeping for Lawyers
For lawyers who shudder at the very mention of the word “billable”, time keeping ranges the negative spectrum from the worst chore to the bane of lawyerly existence. The best way to keep track of your time is contemporaneous entries for accuracy’s sake, but that’s just not how a lot…
Remote Work is Here to Stay
Remote work is increasing across the globe, in every industry that can manage it—and it isn’t just the pandemic that’s making it happen. Sure, the pandemic forced an increase in speed and breadth of adoption, but this snowball has been rolling down the hill for years. Employees expect more flexibility; employers need t
Scaling Your Business Without Losing Your Culture
Aside from “innovation,” few buzzwords carry as little real meaning in Silicon Valley and the broader tech sector than “culture.” While countless startups and established companies alike have seized upon the idea of corporate culture as a vehicle of employee attraction and a way to differentiate themselves in crowded m
Science-Backed Tips to Boost Energy at Work
Fighting mental or energy at work can be a losing battle if you don't have the right tools. Both can affect productivity and your overall health.
Quiz: What Productivity Personality Are You? How to Maximize Your Productivity in 2017
What better way to ring in the new year than with a productivity quiz to help you start setting the right goals in your personal and professional life?
People Management for Rookies
People management is tricky, but it's a learnable skill. Here are some of the best tricks and tips for first-time managers.
Progress, Plans, Problems: Sync Your Team with Updates
If the daily challenge of communicating with your co-workers is driving your crazy, you are not alone. Progress, plans, problems is a communication tool for
Rethinking Productivity as Choreography
Listen to your body and align how you work with your natural work rhythms. Manage your energy, not your time, to achieve peak productivity.
Productivity and Happiness at Work: The Best of the Internet
A guide to happiness at work for grumpy employees, and more of the best links from around the web.
Send One Simple Email to Make Your Job Better
Your boss most likely has very little sense of what you’re accomplishing. Be proactive: send your boss this one email to get recognized for your good work.
Priorities in Threes to Spur Your Productivity
Stacy-Marie Ishmael on how keeping a list of her top three priorities has a consistently profound and positive effect on my productivity.
Prevent Burnout: The Best of the Internet
One way to prevent burnout - the done list - and 4 of the best links from around the web on productivity.
Practice for Productivity! The Best of the Internet
Why the most productive thing you’ll do today is practice, and 6 of the best links from around the web on productivity.
Persistence Is Progress, Not Perfection
Don’t get caught up on perfection. Kindle some progress!
Recognize Your Own Achievements
Remember to pause to recognize your accomplishments, whatever the size. There'll always be more to do ahead, so use that to fuel your motivation.
Schedule Nothing: The Best of the Internet
Why you should schedule nothing and 4 more of the best links from around the web on how to get stuff done.
Productivity Secrets: The Best of the Internet
Productivity secrets for startups and the best articles from around the web on how to get more done.
Share More Feedback and Recognition with Individual Likes & Comments Per Done
We’ve revamped feedback so that you can now add comments and likes to individual dones to make it easier to give specific feedback on people’s dones.
Reset Your Mind! The Best of the Internet
How to take a break and reset your mind, along with the best productivity articles from around the web.
Shine Bright Like a … Lightbulb?
Light the way forward, friends!
Peter Thiel’s Philosophy of Extreme Manager Focus
For extremely successful people like Peter Thiel, ordinary focus isn't enough. Here's how Peter Thiel ran PayPal with extreme manager focus.
Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus
“What are your top five priorities for this week?” “What are the top three objectives and key results you’re using to measure how you’re doing for the quarter?” These are questions that get thrown around by managers at work to help their teams prioritize and focus on achieving the most important accomplishments. In Pet