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Monday Motivation: Countdown
photo credit: alancleaver_2000 Deadlines are often an effective, if stressful motivator, and countdowns, as a reminder of that deadline, work in all kinds of settings. Once, while working for an...
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Open Thread: Working the Long Weekend?
Regular Corporate Idealist contributor Sam Davidson wrote a post the other day at his blog about how much you can get done on Monday when no one’s looking: That means that you have a full day on Monday...
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Slow Down and Accomplish More
photo credit: Dennis Wright Peter Bregman has a really insightful piece called To Get More Done, Slow Down in HarvardBusiness.org: This life is a marathon, not a sprint. Most of us don’t go to work...
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A Three-fer on Work and Happiness
photo credit: *Zara I’ve been thinking about happiness at work lately. Having started my own company just about six months ago, and being happily busy and productive, the relationship has been obvious...
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Are Meetings Worth It?
photo credit: Iain Farrell There it was. Rather, there they were. Usually every day. I’m talking about meeting requests. They don’t flood my inbox, but they’re there. And they don’t go away unless I...
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Go Ahead and Take That Time Off; You’ll Be More Productive Anyway
photo credit: Iván Santiesteban You know that adrenaline rush and the pure focus that comes with the last few hours in the office before a vacation, when suddenly you know exactly what the most...
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Where Else Do You Work?
photo credit: mccheek Whether you’re a freelancer or a company lifer, you’ll always have the chance to get work done offsite. In fact, working somewhere other than your cube, office, or home can add a...
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Playing to Your Strengths
photo credit: Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes If the rows and rows of self-help books at the local bookstore are to be believed, we should all be trying to improve ourselves in various ways every moment...
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Monday Motivation: Shake Up the Routine
photo credit: Sarah G… Routine can be a helpful mechanism for getting repeating tasks done on a regular basis, but it can also trick you into blind cooperation with the past. Do all of your repeating...
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Saving Time at Work – the Geeky Way
I don’t know about you, but I’m always pressed for time. So I got interested when I saw Jared over at The Marketing Diner talk about his geeky time saving work idea: My solution? Use iSpeak It to...
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