More productive e-mailing: Move it from “push” to “pull”
Think differently about how — and how quickly — you access email. Continue Reading
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The future of work: Is your manager orthopraxic or orthodox?
For a while, I was thinking that the essence of “future of work” discussions was this whole maximizer vs. satisficer issue. That means you can either have a hard-driving, professionalism-demanding, results-oriented boss who wants perfection (a maximizer) or someone who is… Continue Reading
Increase productivity, contentment: Seek the ‘Four-Way Win’
I almost titled this “Increase productivity, happiness…” but then I remembered happiness is bullshit and one should chase contentment, so I re-titled it. There are six million and five approaches to being more productive and more happy — entire sections… Continue Reading
No CMO + listen better = $1 billion company in 2 years. Believe in this.
I wrote about Slack maybe a year ago; at the time, it was essentially a total throw-away post. I had seen something on a business website and decided, “Oh, that sounds interesting.” Broadly, these work applications really interest me —… Continue Reading
Student loans will mentally devastate you
I just paid Installment No. 1 of my graduate school student loans two days ago. I hit “Submit” on that online form, basically muttered to myself “Here we go…,” realized it was probably another 30 years until I’d be totally… Continue Reading
Stephen J. Dubner pushes back on Big Data
Big Data is one of the more interesting intersection points in recent human history (sorry to oversell that, which I admittedly probably did). Here’s what we know: C-Suite executives value the idea as a concept, but don’t really know exactly… Continue Reading
You want happier employees? Channel the construction industry.
Three simple tenets that one (perhaps unexpected) industry does well. Continue Reading
Why do we confuse “productivity” with “face-time” or “seat-time” at office jobs?
“Productivity” can be achieved anywhere by a person that cares about their work, so why do we pay so much attention to whether they’re in-office? Because everything comes back to control. Continue Reading