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We unpack behavior science, habit research, and academic research to provide practical insight into how to upgrade your people's critical thinking, communication, people management, and time management skills

How Should You Close An Email? time management Aug 26, 2020

Most of us thoughtlessly sign an email with whatever signature we’ve gotten used to adding before our names. Some even skip signing at all and just allow their auto-populated signature to...

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Does Agile Make Your Team More Innovative? people management time management Aug 24, 2020

The agile project management methodology, originating among software developers in earnest in the early 2000s, has increasingly crossed into other industries as teams and companies look for ways to...

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Do Social Media Fasts Work? resilience time management Aug 17, 2020

Many have taken to social media fasts or even more extreme, dopamine fasts, over the last year to improve their happiness and productivity and reduce stress, but does abstaining from social media...

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Will Time Make You Happier than Money? time management Jun 30, 2020

When given the choice, should you invest money to get more time or invest your time to earn more money?

 

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Lessons from Companies that are Working Less time management Jun 24, 2020

Depending on the survey, 67% to 79% of employees suffer from burnout at least some of the time. These victims of burnout cite unreasonable workload and “too little time in the day...

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Why Your Employees Don’t Care About Productivity people management time management Jun 10, 2020

According to Gallup, 53% of employees give the minimum effort required to complete their work. In other words, more than half of the workforce are doing just enough to collect their...

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The Clumped Towel Fallacy, A Counterproductive Mindset people management time management Feb 27, 2020

We’ve all done it before. You get out of the shower, dry off, and then let the towel slump to the floor as you get dressed. You finish getting dressed, fixing your hair, and whatever else you...

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How Productivity Leads to Happiness, According to Harvard Research resilience time management Jan 14, 2020

In the quest for happiness, you may not think to look for ways to boost your productivity. In fact, productivity can sometimes be associated with a rushed, task-focused way of life, devoid of fun...

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How to Use One of the Most Important Management Tools people management time management Jan 07, 2020

To be a good manager, you must be capable of wielding a large number of management tools as you carry out these four primary responsibilities:

  1. Thought/idea management
  2. People/team management
  3. ...
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A 4-Day Workweek Doesn’t Make You More Productive resilience time management Dec 17, 2019

Microsoft Japan’s experiment with a 4-day workweek has garnered a lot of attention for its seemingly astounding results: a 40 percent increase in productivity. Yet, Microsoft...

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Loving Your Job Won’t Protect You From Burnout. This Will. resilience time management Oct 18, 2019

Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. I knew I was signing up for long hours.

But the reality of that didn’t...

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Productive Managers Avoid These ‘Shortcuts’ In Order to Save Time people management time management Jul 12, 2019

Productive people work faster than their peers, constantly finding shortcuts to get work done in less time than their peers. That’s what I thought when I started my...

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