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“I feel I was simply stubborn enough to want to do my thing… . If there’s something that you want to do, you should just do it. And maybe the world will reward you and maybe it won’t, but it doesn’t matter as long as you’re happy.” The Big Think asked Malcolm Gladwell what the secret was behind his [...]
To-do lists don't work for me, but done lists do. Here's how to keep a done list and why they make you more productive.
Never heard of Alan Turing, the math genius, wartime decoding hero, and computer pioneer? Check out this Radiolab episode in addition to Matthew Lasar’s great overview of the seven Turing Qualities of productivity. The highly productive habits of Alan Turing Try to see things as they are. Don’t get sidetracked by ideol
Don’t wait until you feel like doing something. Boom. Oliver Burkeman’s one-sentence solution to procrastination.
Avoid burnout: Stop measuring your people by the hours they put in, and focus instead on the value they produce. Make that your primary measurement. Then encourage your people to intermittently renew during the day (and on weekends, and over vacations), so that when they’re working, they’re really working. That’s the p
Jonathan Schooler explains the power of daydreaming to give questions time to marinate in your brain in order for you to come up with creative solutions.
A perfectly sensible lifelong routine for starting your Wednesdays out right with this useful checklist.
In case you missed any of them, this week’s best tweets from @iDoneThis. This week, happiness and success are head to head in the popularity vote. These 10 habits may be keeping you from happiness. Do you know what they are and how to quit them? Here are the 10 rules that successful people live [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) The slow web started as a vague idea framed as a joke. When we put our site out into the world on January 2, 2011, we only proces
Maria Popova at Brain Pickings delves into the psychology of to-do lists and the psychology behind how they work.
The servant leader is the #1 type of leader to run social enterprise companies of the future, and that's because they'll be oriented around people first.
The New Groupthink – Should Creatives Work Alone? Looking to up your productivity? Research suggests that the best creativity comes from alone-time. Here are some of our favorite quotes pulled from the NYTimes article: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” – Picasso “Most inventors and engineers I’ve m
When you’re a one man show you have to focus on the most important thing to get done today. – Noah Everett
After a tough day at work, most of us just want to kick back, turn on the TV and relax. The harder you've worked, the more that you want to turn off your brain for a bit to de-stress. It makes total sense, right? It turns out that watching TV…
We live in a culture that seems obsessed with being productive. While increasing our output and doing more with our time is certainly an admirable goal, according to Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excellent at Anything, that misguided approach is actually liable to hurt your productivity. How so? Without real restoration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ_f9onTTQE More naps = boosts in productivity, cognitive function, memory, and creativity!! Sleeping and Science, FTW! (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Harvest is a multimillion-dollar, fantastically profitable, growing business that boasts thousands of customers from freelancers to Fortune 500 companies. The company has grown to over 30 employees and boasts one of the most beautiful tech offices in New York City. But it's how they did it that's most impressive —…
If your best tried-and-true motivational techniques don’t seem to be working on the otherwise talented members of your sales team, you might want to try appealing to their intrinsic motivations. According to a recent survey, 95% of managers think money is the most motivating factor for employees. In fact, an adjacent s
The productivity and communication software and remote tools that make working from home easier.
It's crazy that a deli could make $50 million dollars a year. Zingerman's grew a small business into an amazing success — by refusing to get bigger.
This is the one key management tool that will help you run your team more effectively: Trust, but verify.
Beat procrastination and get productive by working smarter, not more.
Maybe adding a little friction to communication could be exactly what you need.
