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Category Archives: Productivity
The Social Bonds of a Team
I’m sure that, somewhere out there, some popular business wisdom says that people get stagnant when they stay in the same core group too long. Maybe they’re supposed to start failing to come up with new ideas because they are … Continue reading
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6 common work habits that sabotage your productivity Glad to see status meetings on this list. Overall, compulsive activities and “keeping up appearances” activities are not very productive, and Lifehacker points the common ones out in the above article.
Stupid Questions are the Important Questions
Say you’re sitting in a meeting, and a ridiculously stupid question pops into your head. You should ask the question. I’m not talking about a stupid question that would demonstrate your complete ignorance about some key concept that’s being discussed; … Continue reading
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The Producers: Corporate Edition
For those who haven’t seen The Producers (affiliate link), the premise is two producers who get the idea to oversell shares of a horrible play [hundreds of times over], so that they can make off with the surplus when the … Continue reading
Types of Meetings
Reposted with Permission from YouMightBe.com Meeting before the meeting – A select group of people, usually from the same team, decide what the “correct outcome” of the main meeting is supposed to be. When the main meeting comes, the co-conspirators stick … Continue reading
How Not to Leave a Phone Message
Many of us phone novices are guilty of this… Do not leave your phone message like this: My name is [x] with [y] Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 … two minutes later … My number … Continue reading
Not Realizing There is a Problem Until the Annual Survey?
If it takes until the annual employee satisfaction survey comes out to realize that you have a problem, “listening” to employee ideas probably won’t help much. Some possibilities here: Your organization doesn’t have enough trust for everyone having a problem … Continue reading
The cost of re-re-reprioritization
indecision from Crestock Stock Photography Prioritization is a good thing. And there is a very old saying: Too much of a good thing…. In computer terms, I think of reprioritization as “swapping”. A computer may be executing one program and … Continue reading
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The follies of flex-time
Time Clock on Amazon.com The invention of flex-time brought with it the dawn of a new era in the workplace. An age of freedom and flexibility, resulting in unprecedented happiness and fulfillment. Certainly flex-time went a long way in eliminating … Continue reading
Risk Taking and Startup Mentality in a Large Organization
Zero…. from Yuri Arcurs Website Can a large organization really encourage the risk taking and game changing thinking that a small business or startup does? What if large team performance is very much like a well-diversified portfolio, but in the … Continue reading