An Ode to Distributed Teams
Distributed teams can actually be stronger than co-located teams because they have 4 advantages: company culture, communication, productivity, and people.
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5 Ways to Transmit Awesome Customer Service From the Inside Out
As customer support, you just can’t deliver great customer support alone. Here's how to build a customer service company culture in your startup.
Alain de Botton on Success
Alain de Botton speaks about success in his July 2009 TED Talk.
A Year of Good Things
“Start on January 1st with an empty jar. Throughout the year write the good things that happened to you on little pieces of paper. On December 31st, open the jar and read all the amazing things that happened to you that year.” Here’s a great idea from imabookshark to start off the new year. Make a Good [...]
Amazing Productivity Apps: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly round up of posts we've made this week including productivity apps and why most resolutions fail.
Account Association Security Threats for Google Single Sign-On
A security threat results from the incongruent use of the OpenID protocol for trust when it was meant for identification. Here's how to avoid it.
Acknowledging Workplace Emotions for Better Productivity
Tony Schwartz talks about how acknowledging and understanding our workplace emotions are important to how well we work.
Alexis Grant on Motivation
Motivation and inspiration can go a long way toward helping you get where you want to be. Sometimes blogs and books and in-person meetings give me that push or ah-ha moment I need to get moving. But when it comes to creating something awesome, whether that’s a book or a business or some other exciting [...]
Accomplish More by Doing Less
Tony Schwartz describes how to accomplish more by doing less by maintaining a steady reservoir of energy and refueling it often.
8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success
8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success (via copyblogger) What’s your favorite creativity tip?
A Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc57X0j_UwM A little outtake from Miranda July’s The Future shows us a productivity tip that you won’t find on Lifehacker. Bonus video: Miranda July talks about how her procrastination ended up being incorporated into her work. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
A Lesson on Setting Priorities
We don’t know about the origin of this story but it’s a nice reminder about setting priorities: When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day isn’t enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his…
Accenture Grew Their Team Size by 5x while Increasing Adoption & Engagement for Client Check-ins
Accenture was looking for a way to improve communication and collaboration across distributed teams working on client projects.
Airbnb Increased Daily Check-in and Productivity Across 25 Internal Globally Distributed Teams
Airbnb is a popular online marketplace for arranging short-term lodging, primarily homestays, or tourism experiences.
And Eventually, You’ll Make It!
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Ameliorating the Human Condition with iDoneThis Memory
A few months ago, we started to occasionally send your old daily dones to you as a reminder of just how much progress you’d made. Some of you told us that you loved it. For you, we made iDoneThis Memory. Every morning, we’ll email you and remind you what you did on that day either 1 [...]
A Stupid Idea, One Year Later
iDoneThis had the humblest of beginnings, and in a year’s time, we’ve gone from a stupid idea to having helped people get over 500,000 things done. It’s been an incredible year. On December 17, 2010, Rodrigo wrote me the following email. The title of the email was “stupid idea”. A daily “what did you achieve [...]
Alex Z., Food Logger
Meet Alex, denizen of New York City, and active food logger. Alex uses iDoneThis to write down every single thing he eats every day.
An Everyday To-Do List
If only this was on our iDoneThis list every day!
Anatomy of Three Writeups
The lean startup movement disdains the big press launch, and rightfully so. However, the polemical nature of the argument gives off the impression that press should never be sought. Quite the contrary, press should be sought ceaselessly. That being said, it’s important to understand the magnitude of traffic that you ca
Andrew O’Hehir on Planet of Snail
[T]he really important thing about being alive is how you relate to other people and the world around you, rather than how many tasks you complete or how quickly. Some lovely words from Andrew O’Hehir’s review of the Korean documentary, Planet of Snail.
Bad Managers Talk, Good Managers Write
The exemplary manager is often shown as the outgoing guy that gives his team pep talks and high fives. In truth, though, that stereotype couldn’t be farther from the truth. To four highly effective, seasoned, and successful executives, being a good talker isn’t just overvalued, it can actually be detrimental.…
Asynchronous Communication Is The Future Of Work
Whether you fear its impersonal nature or thinks its the best thing since streaming television, asynchronous communication is here to stay Remote work is rising and online education is becoming more accepted and commonplace, both due to changing attitudes and the pandemic. These factors are only going to increase the…
Cells, Pods, and Squads: The Future of Organizations is Small
Pod team structures - “cells,” of four to six people - position the company to be nimble and innovative. Here's how pods encourage autonomy and alignment.