Robin La Pere sur Twitter : "How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done - 5 Expert Tips #productivity. How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done - 5 Expert Tips. Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. Robin La Pere sur Twitter : "Use the 52/17 Rule to Maximize Productivity #productivity... Use the 52/17 Rule to Maximize Productivity. When the going gets tough, research shows the best indicator for whether or not you’ll persevere (and succeed) is your ability to connect with a close community.
Social psychologists found that if we encounter a problem and have someone we can turn to who may have gone through a similar situation, we are more likely to overcome the challenge. Productivity 101: A Primer to the Getting Things Done (GTD) Philosophy. Self-Imposed Deadlines Don't Stop Procrastination. Here's What Might. Mark Twain advised people never to put off until tomorrow what they can put off until the day after, and a lot of us listen.
Estimates suggest that 15% to 20% of all people are chronic procrastinators, and that share goes up for situational delay: As one example, four in five people put off retirement savings despite knowing better. Then there are the innumerable office procrastinators, many identifiable by the mere fact that they're reading this article. Don’t Do That! 3 Personal Branding Mistakes to Avoid by @KatherineKotaw. Photo Credit: Andrew Genn via Fotolia.com by Katherine Kotaw | Featured Contributor Your personal brand is like Humpty Dumpty — it may not survive a great fall.
But even lesser missteps damage your reputation and may give the king’s horses more repair work than they can handle. Don’t count on nursery rhyme characters to protect your image. The 7 Secrets To Make Meetings Less Awful. Paul Rako: The Internet of things (IoT) will enable profound improvements in productivity. Jason Corsello: What the Internet Of Things Will Bring to the Workplace. Source: "We all live in a world dominated by networked devices — not just smartphones, but also smart coffee pots, thermostats, vacuum cleaners, running shoes, wrist bands, even smart Coke machines.
That new world — the Internet of Things, as it’s been coined, or machine-to-machine (M2M) technology — will soon be permeating the workplace, and we’re not just talking about Google Glass. According to IDC, by 2015, 37 percent of the world’s labor force, or 1.3 billion workers, will identify as mobile workers. Another projection sees 1 trillion networked devices hooked up worldwide by 2025. Convertible napping desk. 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady. Managing the unexpected – On the work of Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe « Silberzahn & Jones. Karl Weick has long been known for his work on organization theory.
In particular, his work focuses on how organizations make sense of complex and uncertain environments. Among Weick’s most famous works is the study of the fire in Mann Gulch, an initially banal forest fire in 1949 that went wrong and resulted in the deaths of 13 firefighters. Weick’s analysis shows that in such conditions, a professional team faces what he calls a ‘cosmological event’, ie an event so unexpected and powerful that it destroys the will and the ability of the victims to act, in particular to act as a group.
How I Made Sleep a Priority—And Got More Productive - Lifestyle. When I was around 10 years old I would regularly wake up at 5 or 6 a.m. to play Nintendo before school.
My brother, six years my senior, would sleep in as late as possible and remind me on a daily basis that I should do the same while I still could. I, however, thought being awake was simply more fun than being asleep. And the notion of living a full life by avoiding sleep stuck with me into adulthood. Three years ago I started a company in San Francisco with some friends. Learn. It all starts here, folks.
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Anywhere working: Finding the office of the future. 21 February 2012Last updated at 06:36 By Fiona Graham Technology of business reporter, BBC News.
Hack Your Productivity: A Time-Management Geek's 10-Minute Solution. I just had the most productive week ever.
I am a bit of a time-management geek. Study in Courage: the “Done Manifesto” Maybe you’ve seen it because it came out in 2009. But I hadn’t… until Cliff Huang at Fast Company’s co.design brought it to the attention of one of our agencies’ designers.