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768 articles · Page 9 of 32

Management · 10 min read

Don’t Manage Projects or Tasks, Manage People

Here's an excerpt from our fresh-of-the-presses eBook, What You Don't Know About Management: How to Take Back Your Work Day. If you like what you read, download the 50+ page eBook for free! One of the biggest misconceptions of management is about what really drives people. In a survey of hundreds of managers by…

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Management · 2 min read

Drew Dudley on Leadership

Drew Dudley’s TEDx Toronto talk about redefining leadership beyond money, power, and titles reminds us that we are all everyday leaders, and that we don’t have any excuses in expecting leadership from ourselves and from each other. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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Productivity · 4 min read

Ernesto Ramirez, Wellness Polymath

Ernesto Ramirez is a Ph.D student and organizer for Quantified Self. Ernesto uses iDoneThis to feel great about what he gets done every day.

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Motivation · 2 min read

Dr. Hari Palaiyanur, Ph.D

Hari Palaiyanur is a newly minted Ph.D who used iDoneThis to motivate him to make progress on his dissertation every day, until he had his Ph.D in hand.

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Productivity · 2 min read

Eileen Brady: A Minute of Insight

Check out Eileen Brady’s minute of insight for entrepreneurs that works for all of us! "It’s really the individuals that can get up and say … I’m just going to try and win the day and move on and win the next day that end up making it." (From GOOD’s minute…

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Psychology · 2 min read

Exercising Towards Happiness

It’s how [exercise] make me feel: more energized, less stressed, more productive, more engaged and, yes, happier — better able to smell the roses and cope with the inevitable frustrations of daily life. Jane E. Brody, NYT Well, “Changing Our Tune on Exercise” Brody writes about how reframing the message of…

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Management · 7 min read

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

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Productivity · 2 min read

Felicia Day: Just Do It!

Stop planning to do that thing you want to do and just do it! Felicia Day, Lifehacker, I’m Felicia Day, and This is How I Work

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Productivity · 2 min read

Fight Your Way Through

Ira Glass’s wise words on closing the gap between your work and your ambitions: Do a lot of work! (original design by Sawyer Hollenshead)

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Productivity · 38 min read

Google Snippets

The Definitive Guide to Google Snippets I knew nothing about Google Snippets before I moved to Silicon Valley. But when I was out there, I kept hearing that successful company after company — like Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Buzzfeed and more — used the snippets system to power a flat and…

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Productivity · 9 min read

Great Customer Support Starts with Great Teamwork

Not so long ago, customer support was seen as a luxury rather than a necessity. Many companies mistakenly saw customer support as an expense to be managed rather than as an asset to be leveraged. As flawed as this position may be, it’s understandable. After all, it’s a lot easier to quantify the value of [...]

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Management · 3 min read

How A Team of 3 Needed I Done This to Stay In Sync and Prioritize Work

The Brief Productivity is everything at startups. And, with all the chaos that happens at startups (growth, hiring, legal – you name it), it’s easy to lose sight on tracking your productivity. That’s where Markitors found themselves last year. Markitors is a growing digital marketing agency in Scottsdale, Arizona with

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Productivity · 5 min read

How Dan Pink Invested in iDoneThis

Here's how Dan Pink invested in iDoneThis--through service, building a product that he uses, and following the playbook of To Sell is Human.

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Management · 4 min read

How Buffer Works Smarter, Not Harder

Buffer's company culture is focused on working smarter, not harder. Here's how they do it as a remote team, spread across multiple countries and timezones.

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