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What if “the flexibility stigma” cripples the U.S. economically?

The Flexibility Stigma

Here’s one study — and yes, it’s just one — and here’s the corresponding summary and analysis at Harvard Business Review. If you can’t figure out what “the flexibility stigma” might be on face, let me briefly explain: people want more flexibility about their… Continue Reading

Managers can’t even set their own priorities

Managers and Priorities

Just came across this post on Forbes, which is based on this study. Here’s the essential takeaway in a visual form: Yep.

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55 hours of work per week is a hard ceiling. Remember that.

Don't Work More Than 55 Hours A Week

People love to hop on the cross at work. “Oh, you know, just been grinding away… things are so busy…” I once had a lady I worked with tell me she was finishing work around 11pm-midnight every night, to the point that her husband… Continue Reading

How about we discuss uninterrupted work time?

Uninterrupted Work Time

There are about 24.2 million hits on Google for “uninterrupted work time,” so it feels like something people are interested in and others are putting out content around. Makes sense, right? We’re all super busy, e-mail is the current generation’s… Continue Reading

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Only 11 percent of people accomplish their daily to-do list. WTF?

No one accomplishes their to-do list

Got that number from here, via a LinkedIn study that seems to look at 17 industries. I can’t decide if I think 11 percent is too low (what most people think) or too high (which might be logical). Productivity journalism is a… Continue Reading

How to be more creative: Explain things back to yourself

How To Be More Creative

I sometimes think it’s a giant farce that people consider the concept of “creativity” to be something that fits into one of these boxes: (a) you’re born with it, (b) it’s some type of skill that certain people possess and… Continue Reading

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How to get out of a rut: Three whys

Three Whys and Productivity

I had seen that Ricardo Semler TED Talk before and remember thinking it was good, but it wasn’t necessarily one of the TED Talks that stays with you for a long time (at least for me). Then I came across… Continue Reading

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Focus on the stuff that works. Let the other stuff go.

Essentialism

This is an interesting little rundown of a number of top digital marketers all essentially saying the same thing, which is “After a while, you need to cut bait on some projects.” It kind of lines up with the idea… Continue Reading