Does Working in Pajamas Affect Productivity?
Lose the pajamas!! Groom and dress before punching in, and you might be more productive -- or at least able to take last-minute video meeting requests.
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Do Business Globally and Manage Remote Teams Locally
Do business globally and manage remote teams locally using I Done This -- that's part of how RingCaptcha makes security so effective and user friendly.
Daria the Developer Hates Daily Standup
Daily standups can be great--but they can also be the bane of your dev team's workday. Here's how to get standups that are productive and enjoyable.
Evernote Founder Phil Libin’s Secret To Looking Interested During Meetings
“I haven’t actually told this to anyone before.” Anytime you hear those words, pay attention to what the person says next. Anytime you hear those words from someone who’s co-founded three multimillion-dollar companies, drop everything and start taking notes. In this case, those words came from Phil Libin, who co-founde
Don’t Just Build Product, Build the Machine that Builds the Product
When you build product, that's not the same as building a company—that's only the first step. The hard part is building the machine that builds the product.
Don’t Let Your Huge Goal Distract You from Small Wins
Small wins might seem inconsequential or trivial, but they can have exactly some of the outsize impact we need to reach our big dreams.
Don’t Preserve Startup Culture in Your Growing Company
Some founders sound like Peter Pan — they never want their startup culture to grow up. That immature mentality is no way to build a company that lasts.
Failure & Cake: A Guide to Spotify’s Psychology of Success
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
Do You Take Work For Granted or With Gratitude?
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
Do What Is Important
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.
Does Anybody Listen to You? 4 Steps to Becoming an Influencer
Being able to communicate, convince, and influence the people around you is an essential part of getting promotions, raises, and access to opportunities.
Don’t Copy and Paste Your Customer Support
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’s Surprising Strategy For Success
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.
Do the Painful Things First
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.
Customer Service and Empathy: The Best of the Internet
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 [...]
Draft + iDoneThis: Celebrate your writing progress
We’ve integrated with Draft to make it easy to track your writing progress. Make your piece in Draft a done in iDoneThis with a single click.
Effective Communication: The Best of the Internet
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
Do good work, tell people about it. Acknowledge your progress and recognize others’ good work!
Don’t Dwell on the Past
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.
Don’t Let Others Define You: The Best of the Internet
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.
Designing Habit Hacks to Change Your Life
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.
Dare to Say “Yes, And”
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.
Don’t Stand Still
In the words of a Chinese proverb, Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Dr. David Posen on Treating Workplace Stress
Dr. Posen breaks down three main causes of workplace stress and explains how to be a better manager and worker.