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Batch tasks, create a state of flow

Batch Tasks To Create Flow

When one year passes to the next, there are invariably about 19,287 articles about how exactly to make the next year more productive than the past one. Here’s what probably actually happens: you go back to work tomorrow or the next… Continue Reading

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You’ll do 590 actual hours of work in 2016

You Will Barely Work 600 Hours in 2015

If you’re American, you probably classify yourself as a workaholic, or think “the work never ends” (because you often answer your e-mail on weekends or at nights). This is admittedly all a small part of “The Busy Trap,” which in turn… Continue Reading

58 percent of supervisor job skills come from four traits. Learn them.

Emotional Quotient

Want to be a better manager? Focus on these four core concepts. Continue Reading

Voice mail is basically dead. Is e-mail next?

Will E-Mail Die?

Even 20 years ago, everyone opened their workday by checking VMs. Now that’s a relic. Could that happen with e-mail? Continue Reading

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2015 Business Trend: Synthesis in, analysis out

Synthesis and Analysis

For a lot of people, the words “synthesis” and “analysis” might be synonyms in a work context. In fact, they technically mean different things. Synthesis is the process of building information up, and analysis is the process of breaking information down. You can… Continue Reading

How To Set Priorities: Start with clarity about what matters most

Setting Priorities

I want to write a bunch on this blog in 2015 about the notion of setting priorities, because I think it’s one of the most interesting aspects of human existence (sorry to oversell that), especially as it gets ramped up… Continue Reading

Arbejdsglæde, as a word, explains the working world

Arbejdsglæde

The general attitude you encounter in most U.S. workplaces is that people dislike their job, aren’t that engaged, don’t love their managers, don’t feel respected, think their manager doesn’t understand motivation — and yet are always busy and don’t have time… Continue Reading

If you truly believe in yourself, does ‘leverage’ at work still matter?

Believe In Yourself

I went to the gym this morning — I think it’s Wednesday, which means I’ve been three-four straight days, which, well, fuck you and go me — and while there, I toggled between about six different Pandora stations across the… Continue Reading