Written Communication Channels at Work – Where Your Intranet Fits
What are the best communication channels at work and when is the best time to use them? Explore how to communicate best and stay productive.
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Work From Home: How to Create a Home Office That Works for You
Here are some steps to help you out when customizing your home office to suit your style and create a productive environment.
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Your Employees Lie About Their Motivations — So What’s a Manager to Do?
We are all guilty of not admitting to what really motivates us (hint: it's not always money!). Here's what managers can do to spark employee motivation.
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Why Your Productivity Software Has # Hashtags and @ Mentions
By now hashtags and mentions are common language of the internet. Beyond social media, they also impact productivity software and team communication.
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Why You Should Scrap Your Analog To-Do List
If there's one productivity tool we have all kept close, it's the to-do list. Here's why you should scrap the pen and paper and go digital instead.
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Zapier Brings a Chrome Extension to I Done This
Push, a new Chrome extension, lets you add “dones,” “goals,” and “blockers” to your done list without ever leaving your browser window. Here's how.
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Why You Should Stop Copying Google’s Employee Perks
Google's employee perks are trendy and great, but it isn't always about following a fad. Here are some companies that do the opposite and still thrive.
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Why Your Goals Aren’t Making You More Productive
Used by tons of tech companies, OKR is widespread in the tech community. But misuse of OKR goals can prove fatal to your organization. Read our tips here!
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Your Employees Are Underperforming…They Just Don’t Know It
Want to boost your team's productivity? Try boosting their confidence.
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Why You Should Always Write Down Your Bad Ideas
Bad ideas lead to great ideas. Generating good ideas is hard. Many of us get stuck. The trick is having a lot of ideas. Even bad ideas.
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Your Accomplishments, Now with Emojis
We've added emojis to iDoneThis! To use it, just type a colon and then start typing a word, like :pizza:. If an autocomplete menu shows up, then we have it
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Why You Will Gain Freedom with a Set Creativity Schedule
Without carving out a creativity schedule, you'll procrastinate on creative work with less important tasks.
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Why You Should Hire People Who’ve Rebounded from Failure, Not Those Handcuffed by Success
How to hire innovators from Jeff Bezos: don't look for people who've only been successful, look for failures. Here's how Bezos did it with AmazonFresh.
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Why You Need a Business Coach But Won’t Admit It
The paradox for entrepreneurs and other ambitious people is that they often don't have this trait to realize that they need a business coach.
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Why You Shouldn’t Let Engineers Negotiate Their Salary
Negotiating salary when recruiting engineers is a dumb move. That's why Steve Newcomb doesn't let engineers negotiate and uses a company salary formula.
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Why You Shouldn’t Build a Billion-Dollar Startup
It's easy to get caught up imagining your company going viral, but setting out to build a billion-dollar startup is one of the biggest mistakes.
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Why Stack Rank Doesn’t Measure Up
In this two-part guest series, Ellen Chisa shares her experience at Microsoft and how its review system affected her psyche and productivity. (Read part 1 for an overview of Ellen’s time at Microsoft.) Stack ranking is a performance review system that ranks employees against each other. Critics point out that a review
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You’re Not Good Enough to Be Disappointed Yet
You haven’t developed your skills. It’s only the professionals that are allowed to be disappointed because they have put in the work to be better.
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Your Only Sustainable Competitive Advantage: One Vital Lesson for Success from 99U Pop-Up School
Here are 3 lessons I learned at the 99U Pop-Up School on why it’s so important to tune in and how to turn self-awareness into a major competitive advantage.
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Why Teams with Time Style Diversity Are Stronger
Here are the 5 time management styles. While these differences can cause conflict, a diverse mix of styles can actually bring out the best in your teams.
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Why Work Loneliness Isn’t Just a Personal Problem, and What to Do About It
Loneliness seems like a personal problem, but it's a collective issue. At work, loneliness results from inadequate attention paid to the human side of work.
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Why You Should Stop Keeping Score at Work
Stop keeping score at work because you'll underestimate your teammates’ contributions and overestimate your own. Here's the science behind why.
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Work vs Home: Knock Down Those Walls!
Although the pressures of society and work often cause us to behave differently in our work and home lives, I believe we must resolve to knock down these artificial walls and behave the same at work and at home. Bill George, author of Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, at Harvard
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Women, Toot Your Own Horn or Get Left Behind
The most powerful tactic for women in advancing their career is to make their achievements known. Here's how women can make self-promotion work effectively.
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