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.
I Done This library · preserved by Oz
Original voices. Dates where recovered. The work lives on.
Ideas for doing better work.
796 recovered articles from I Done This, preserved with their original text and available media as I Done This becomes part of Oz. Plus 9 new evidence-backed guides from Oz.
Archive page 32 of 34
805 articles · Page 32 of 34
What I Wish I’d Known: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! Our Chief Happiness Officer Ginni Chen’s expert advice on how to make customers happy over at the Firefly blog. How to use small wins to fuel great achievements. How the brain performs better when faced with a challenge. What 25 [...]
What Happens When You Don’t Email?
Professor Mark studied what happens when you do away with work email. She found that people were less stressed, more productive, and able to focus longer.
What Helps You Work?
Another employee, a programmer, thought his online chats were eating into his work time. So he tested the theory: He looked at how long he spent chatting during certain periods, then looked at how much code he wrote during those times. But in fact, the more he talked, the more…
What Will Fast Company Write about Your Startup’s Culture?
Successful entrepreneurs like Zappos's Tony Hsieh say to write down your core values. How do you define your startup culture without resorting to cliché?
When Are You Most Happy? The Happiness Tracking App
Matt Killingsworth is interested in not just what makes people happy but when people are happy. Gathering data from a happiness-tracking app that he built, he found that people are less happy when their minds are wandering, no matter what they’re doing. So rewire yourself to stay in the moment, and watch how you’re pay
Why Logic is an Unproductive Way to Address Illogical Behavior
Overwhelm is a major cause of project slippage, demotivation and disengagement. Here's how overwhelm happens at work and how to combat it.
When Stress Takes Over
Work stress can take over your body. Take some small steps today with advice from Dr. Chansky.
Who hates Mondays? Not everyone, apparently!
NEWS FLASH: Everybody does not hate Mondays! A recent Gallup poll found that workers who are engaged feel almost as good on the weekdays as they do on the weekends! Plus, learning and interestingness peaks for these happy, engaged workers during the workweek. In turn, they are more likely to be productive. The bad news
What Is The Ultimate Life Hack?
Giving and receiving undivided attention, even briefly, is the least that one individual can do for another — and sometimes the most. And yet, attending to others doesn’t just help them — it helps us, by evoking responses that help the listener feel cared for, useful, and connected to the larger world. Kare Anderson, “
When Procrastination Becomes Useful
Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause. Frank Partnoy, “Waiting Game”, Financial Times. Partnoy, author of the forthcoming book Wait
Who Says It Can’t Be Done?
It Couldn’t Be Done - Edgar Albert Guest Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace…
Why Appreciation Matters
Feeling genuinely appreciated lifts people up. At the most basic level, it makes us feel safe, which is what frees us to do our best work. It’s also energizing. When our value feels at risk, as it so often does, that worry becomes preoccupying, which drains and diverts our energy from creating value. Tony Schwartz, Why
Why Do We Procrastinate?
http://vimeo.com/36045882 Ryan Perera’s infographic guide on why we procrastinate. Research shows that procrastination is based on our natural tendency to value today much more than tomorrow. We hope iDoneThis helps you value today as much as yesterday and tomorrow! (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up as We Age?
As we get older, it's common to feel like time is passing more quickly. Weeks, months and years seem to fly by faster than they did when we were children. This phenomenon is so widely experienced that it has a name - "time acceleration". So why does time appear to…
Why I Ignored a Late-Night Email From My New Boss (And You Should Too)
It came, like most terrible and dangerous things, in the night. OK so like 9:30. But late enough. It arrived through the buzz of my phone. A new message in my inbox. A message from my new boss. And on week two of my tenure here at iDoneThis. The…
Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science of Motivation
Learn how dopamine affects motivation and discover tips to boost productivity and focus. Take steps to improve focus and performance. Get full review.
Work Productivity Hacks 2021: Five Tips To Boost Office Efficiency
Work productivity hacks is necessary to help boost work performance. Below we cover the best hacks that will boost productivity.
Writing is Power: Supercharge Your Writing Process
Like most things worth doing, writing can be a chore. But the more fluent you become at the writing process, the more you’ll be able to own your success.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.