Topic: productivity
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Productivity in the modern office: A matter of impact
Thursday, May 9, 2013 · Topics: employee-engagement, productivity
From Knowledge@Wharton: More than 50 years after management guru Peter Drucker first wrote about the difficulty of defining and measuring the productivity of knowledge workers, management experts say many companies still do a poor job of it. To get a better gauge of how much employees are accomplishing, experts say managers need to remember that quality is often as important, if not more so, than quantity, and that blanket policies rarely remedy such a highly individualized issue. · Go to Productivity in the modern office: A matter of impact →
The importance of scheduling nothing
Monday, April 8, 2013 · Topics: brain-fitness, productivity
From Jeff Weiner, CEO at LinkedIn: In aggregate, I schedule between 90 minutes and two hours of these buffers every day (broken down into 30– to 90-minute blocks). It’s a system I developed over the last several years in response to a schedule that was becoming so jammed with back-to-back meetings that I had little time left to process what was going on around me or just think. · Go to The importance of scheduling nothing →
Relax! You’ll be more productive
Friday, April 5, 2013 · Topics: creativity, productivity
From Tony Schwartz in NY Times: More and more of us find ourselves unable to juggle overwhelming demands and maintain a seemingly unsustainable pace. Paradoxically, the best way to get more done may be to spend more time doing less. A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal — including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office and longer, more frequent vacations — boosts productivity, job performance and, of course, health. · Go to Relax! You’ll be more productive →
Seven ways to cope with stress
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 · Topics: personal-mastery, productivity, stress
From Deb Lee on unclutterer: David Allen says, “A reason a lot of people are feeling overwhelmed is because people are not in true survival or crisis mode as often as they have been in much of our history. The interesting thing about crisis is that it actually produces a type of serenity. Why? Because in a crisis, people have to integrate all kinds of information that’s potentially relevant, they have to make decisions quickly, they have to then trust their intuitive judgment calls in the moment. They have to act … they’re very focused on some outcome, usually live–you know, survive.” · Go to Seven ways to cope with stress →
Stay productive and organized while working from home
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 · Topics: home-office, productivity
From David Caolo at unclutterer: The following are ten tips that keep my work on track when I’m at home. · Go to Stay productive and organized while working from home →
Five ways to successfully manage interruptions at work
Friday, March 22, 2013 · Topics: interruptions, productivity
From Unclutterer: Would you be surprised to learn that when you are distracted while working, you can make mistakes when you get back to your intended task? The results of a study by the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that you also have a greater chance of “resuming at a different point in [your] train of thought” then if you had not been interrupted. Perhaps the most telling thing the researchers discovered is that even quick interruptions of less than three seconds made participants more likely to make a mistake. · Go to Five ways to successfully manage interruptions at work →
When email turns from delight to deluge
Thursday, March 21, 2013 · Topics: email-etiquette, email-inbox, productivity
From Jenna Wortham in NY Times: In the not-so-distant past, the chipper AOL sound of “You’ve got mail!” filled me with giddiness and glee. I would eagerly check my in-box, excited to see what message had arrived. Those days are long gone. Now, when I examine my various e-mail accounts, my main emotion is dread. · Go to When email turns from delight to deluge →
In defense of email
Thursday, March 21, 2013 · Topics: email-etiquette, email-inbox, productivity
From Dave Girouard at Techcrunch: If you ask me, I think the problem exists largely between keyboard and chair. · Go to In defense of email →
