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Nobody enjoys failing. It’s never really what you set out to do. At Spotify, failure is cause for celebration, because it’s seen as an opportunity for growth. Jonas Aman, who is part of Spotify’s People Operations team, told us that instead of treating setbacks like speed bumps you rumble over in the course of running
When I first joined iDoneThis, I hated our weekly meetings. They were demoralizing and amorphous. We rambled on, drowning in circuitous discussions about product that led nowhere. The meetings became a chore, making us feel like sulky high school students waiting for the bell to ring. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner noticed a
Humans tend to be bad at understanding how we’ll feel in the future. Focus on what is important is one key to productivity that matters.
Being able to communicate, convince, and influence the people around you is an essential part of getting promotions, raises, and access to opportunities.
It's easy to slip into robotic customer support without realizing it. Here's how to recognize that you're copy-pasting support and what to do about it.
Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 different words. Here's how he used the power of constraints to unleash his creativity and get more done.
Behavioral scientists have discovered that one of the most effective ways to boost happiness is to do the painful parts of any process first. Here's why.
Look at this tough guy! Now look at the best of what we shared on the interwebs this week: The Golden Rule of Management: treat others the way you want to be treated. Why iDoneThis is part of Love With Food’s company rhythm. How the Lost Art of Empathy affects your employees and customers. 6 Tips on [...]
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REMINDER! We’re giving away some awesome prizes for subscribers who sign up for the newsletter by Sunday, August 18, 11:59 pm EST. How Dan Pink Invested in iDoneThis — it started with a to-do item that sat and sat undone for weeks. Getting to Better Than Optimal is even more important in this increasingly automated, te
Do good work, tell people about it. Acknowledge your progress and recognize others’ good work!
You can’t change anything that has happened, but you can change what’s about to happen. Tina Lin, a 14-year-old high school student, wants to become the first U.S. table tennis Olympics Champion. Her wise guiding principle? Don’t dwell too much on the past and the points lost. Go after the next ones.
iDoneThis weekly roundup on posts we've shared this week including don't let other define you, innovation requires no degree and defend against power plays.
Habit change doesn't require you to have superhuman willpower. Here's how to design habit hacks to shape your behavior without the need for self-control.
Use the “Yes, and” principle of improv at work to open yourself to positivity and other people's ideas. It will help your company to build on itself.
In the words of a Chinese proverb, Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Dr. Posen breaks down three main causes of workplace stress and explains how to be a better manager and worker.
As we bid farewell to 2012, some food for thought about the upcoming: Tips on how to make it easier to be happier, fitter, more productive… And 5 more tips. What does it mean to do what you love for a living? What are you waiting for? Well, iDoneThis users & blog readers: what are [...]
Todd Henry of The Accidental Creative breaks down three different productivity types - the Driver, the Drifter, and the Developer.
This guest article is from Caleb Vognsen, a builder, gamer, and thinker. For more on Caleb, read to the bottom. Bossless is bunk. Perhaps you’ve heard of this “Bosslessness,” the latest pre-existing corporate substructure The Internet has now decided is trending. Perhaps you’ve heard it mostly involves de-titling every
At Shopify, they've reinvented the annual review and compensation process. They crowdsource company bonuses every month using their internal system Unicorn.
Listen to that quiet voice and try, try, again. You are accomplishing awesome things!
Wise use of space means creating the right context for concentration, learning, communication, and collaboration—the building blocks of productivity. Productivity is not just about you. It’s also about your environment. The National Institute of Building Sciences takes a look at “productive building design.” Organizati
We have a broad-based, loosely constrained web application. Our users engage with the site in a variety of different ways for a number of reasons. That makes it difficult to take a bunch of usage information and turn it into actionable data about how to position our product. In searching for data to form the [...]
