Can Gaming at Work Increase Productivity?
Games don't have to be a distraction from our everyday lives—they can actually increase productivity. Use gamification to help your workers get more done.
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Avoid Workplace Disagreements By Getting Things In Writing
Getting things in writing can help to avoid workplace disagreements. It's a practice some of the most successful thinkers and leaders have used.
Company Culture for Startups
Make company culture real in your startup with this guide. Especially for first-time startup founders, this guide shows you how to build and grow a team.
Are You an Unwitting Audience to Productivity Theater?
When looking busy and face time is rewarded, employees put on a show for managers. Welcome to Productivity Theater.
Build a Lucky Startup, Don’t Leave it to Chance
Luck is a critical but misunderstood component of startup success. Why the luckiest and most successful companies like Zappos don't leave luck to chance.
Build Brick by Brick
John Heywood was an English playwright who lived hundreds of years ago. Today, Heywood is known for his poems, proverbs, and plays. But more than any one work, it’s his phrases that have made him famous. For example, here are some popular sayings that have been attributed to Heywood: “Out of sight out of mind.” [...]
Are You Thinking Enough Before You Commit?
Back when I was a first-year physics graduate student, one of my favorite professors used to get on my case about using pencil instead of pen for my notes and problem sets. He’d say, “think and then commit with ink!” As I progressed through my studies, I realized that my use of the pencil was [...]
Break the Bad Habit of Ineffective Meetings
Ineffective meetings are a bad habit. Here's how to break the bad habit of ineffective meetings to have meetings that are valuable and not demoralizing.
Attain a Flexible Mind: The Best of the Internet
You have to stretch, little by little, to attain a flexible mind. Learn how, plus check out 4 other great links on productivity from around the web.
Better Than Optimal
Optimal play in poker isn't good enough, and so neither is optimal work. You must work smart and experiment with untested strategies to find success.
Announcing the iDoneThis Newsletter and A Hammy, Bookish Giveaway
We put a lot of effort at iDoneThis into our content, because we write about what we care about: productivity, teamwork, creativity, and happiness at work. But as we quickly found, while quality content is vital, its life is incomplete without distribution, the pumping of publishing’s heart. In these busy times, it’s a
Boost Your Productivity! The Best of the Internet
Here's the best from around the web to give you a productivity boost.
Connect Your Services to iDoneThis Effortlessly with Zapier
Automate the sending of dones to iDoneThis using Zapier. Here's how to integrate Zapier with your favorite apps like GitHub, Trello, Gtalk, Asana, and more.
Buzzfeed’s Kismet Engine that Drives Deliberate Focus
At Buzzfeed, they use Google Snippets as their kismet engine. It's a surprisingly simple productivity system from Google that helps them connect the dots.
Connecting The Dots In Your Life
A little bit of reflection and connecting the dots can lead to insight, an honest overview of where you are, and a clearer picture of where you’re headed!
Be Brave, Escape Anxiety!
A little inspiration to help you escape anxiety.
Change Your Life Through Habits: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly round up featuring posts we've made this week including habit hacks, hire people to think, creativity killers and more.
Company with the “World’s Least Powerful CEO” Makes $2.5 Million Every Day
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen calls himself “the world’s least powerful CEO." They've found huge success with a weak CEO by organizing into autonomous cells.
Beware the Doubt Ghost!
A little inspiration for getting rid of the doubt ghost.
Busyness is Not a Virtue
When you go on about being so busy, you’re often engaging in doublespeak. Here's what busyness really means and why it's not a virtue.
Collaboration and Communication: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! We shared our 7 favorite collaboration and communication tools — perfect for adding to any company toolbox, whether your workers are remote or office-assembled. Find out how C2I Intel uses iDoneThis with distributed and overseas teams
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, on why she wrote The Yellow Wall-paper, after a specialist said refrain from intellectual life, which almost caused mental ruin.
Be Confident, Don’t Give Up!
Get a hit of confidence from artist Marlo Meekins and stay confident, and keep going, step by step!
Are You Checking Your Attention’s Blind Spots?
Inattentional blindness is a state of unseeing and missing information created by where your attention is focused.