Almost regardless of the job level you have, if you’ve failed at something at work, someone has been up in your arse crack about it. “Why did that happen? I need answers!” People can be miserable, especially middle managers — who… Continue Reading
Even if you’re the most ‘Slave To The Temple Of Being Busy’ person in the world and/or are totally drowning in deliverables, you’d probably admit that Fridays aren’t that productive for you at work. I’ve been working in different types… Continue Reading
I wrote this a while back, about the top 10 skills needed for a job based on some LinkedIn research. Actually spent some time in Northampton, MA over the holidays after I wrote that post (was with friends), and one… Continue Reading
To a certain extent, process is everything at work. It needs to be there because people can’t just go off willy-nilly and do whatever the hell they want within their workflow, but the general idea of process is terrifying in the hands… Continue Reading
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
That chart above is from here, and here’s the methodology behind it: To find out which school of thought is more accurate, we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000… Continue Reading
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
I literally despise the concept of e-mail. Every stat you read about it is insanely depressing. It’s a major time suck, and it came along at a time and in such a way that you have a totally-split workforce —… Continue Reading