Productivity

8 Strategies For Making A Better Life

Tamar Chansky | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Expectations, Anxiety, Perfectionism, Happiness, Productivity, Enhancing Performance, Happiness Tips, Emotional Intelligence, Overcoming Perfectionism, Gps-Soul, Emotional Wellness, Perfectionism Anxiety, Perfectionist, Healthy Living News

The opposite of perfection isn't imperfection or mediocrity; it's reality. It's possibility. It's all the magnificent points that exist all around the bull's eye.

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U.S. Factories Rebounding On The Backs Of Low-Wage Workers

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Factory Output, Video, Low Wages, Unemployment, Worker Output, Wages, Manufacturing Wages, Manufacturing, Productivity, Business News

American manufacturing may be starting to bounce back, but the workers responsible for the turnaround aren’t seeing much of a pay off. U.S. manu...

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We Work Too Hard

David Vognar | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Work-Sharing, Lincoln Electric, Economy, Tim Jackson, Work Productivity, Climate Change, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Barack Obama, Productivity, Business News

It would behoove us to remember that slow and steady often wins the race, just as a more balanced approach to work life can be more beneficial than the helter-skelter mindset of our cut-throat labor market.

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How to Get Things Done: Separate Your Work Modes

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Procrastination, Procrastination Tips, Collaboration, Procrastination Advice, Productivity Advice, Mindful Living, Productive, Productivity Tips, Procrastinate, Productivity, Healthy Living News

We all procrastinate. Whether it's putting off the challenging phone call or trolling Facebook when we should be writing a proposal, we all avoid certain tasks.

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Your Start-Up Life: How to Get Flexibility at Work?

Rana Florida | Posted 05.16.2012

Feel free to let your boss know that a new study released by the Center for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and American Cancer Society has confirmed what many have long suspected: that lengthy car commutes are terrible for your health.

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Is Tech Addiction Killing Your Small Business?

Melody Stevens | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Tech Addiction, Small Business, Technology Use, Technology Addiction, Worker Productivity, Productivity, Social Media, Smartphones, Email, Small Business News

We have crossed the line. Internet and technology use has ceased being about helpful tools to grow and sustain a business. Instead, in many cases it has become an obsession, a compulsion and an addiction.

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What To Do When Someone Asks For A Favor

Daniel Gulati | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Time Management, Personal Growth, Social Networking, Productivity, Communication, Networking Tips, Networking Business, Tips for Networking, Working Relationships, Gps-Soul, Favors, Emotional Intelligence, Networking, Healthy Living News

By qualifying those who ask for favors, you've designed a system that is both effective and efficient: You're quickly identifying those who most want your help, you're not ignoring or denying anyone, and importantly, you're preserving your own valuable time.

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April Employment Showers

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Earnings, Jobs, April, Unemployment, Payroll, Productivity, Unemployment Rates, Business News

The first quarter of 2012 has been a wild ride. After an inexplicably strong late 2011 and early 2011 the flow of macro data has turned dramatically less encouraging.

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Reclaim Your Time And Energy: 5 Ways To Take Your Life Back From Food

Michelle May, M.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Energy, Mindful Eating Retreat, Diets, Mindfulness Tips, Guilt, Time Management, Food, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Eating, Weight Loss, Weight, Productivity, Gps-Soul, Mindfulness, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News

You have a choice: Reclaim your rightful ownership of your time and energy or continue to waste it thinking about food.

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Is Productivity Growth a Different Animal in Times of Slack Resource Utilization?

Evan Soltas | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Economic Recovery, Recovery, Economics, Productivity, Productivity Gains, Macroeconomics, Business News

We are moving into the medium-run period of recovery from recession, and the path of productivity during this recession is visibly different from the past.

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We All Do Better When We All Do Better

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Top 1%, Income Inequality, Productivity, Ross Perot, Invisible Hand, Henry Ford, Alexis De Tocqueville, Self-Interest, Strong Middle Class, Real Wages, Lesser America, Erik Reinert, Nick Hanauer, Joseph Stiglitz, The One Percent, Economics, Business News

Lately, the public mood has gone the opposite way. Simply put, we are told that we will all do better when most of us do worse.

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Do You Really Know What Your Business Does?

John Friedman | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Environmental Impact, Benefits, Loyalty, Community, Chip and Dan Heath, Sustainability, Employee Communication, Messaging, Society, Climate Impacts, Made to Stick, Productivity, Business News

The fact is we so often get caught up on the tactics of what our companies or organizations make day to day that we lose sight completely of what it is they really do.

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Why Working From Home May Not Be All It's Cracked Up To Be

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Work-From-Home, Corporate Profits, Companies Squeezing Workers, Work Productivity, Worker Productivity, Productivity Work From Home, Work From Home, Video, Work From Home Productivity, Corporations Work From Home Productivity, Corporations, Companies Productivity, Corporations Squeezing Workers, Corporations Productivity, Productivity, Business News

Workers are getting more flexibility from their employers, but that doesn't necessarily mean their lives are getting any easier. Companies are le...

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Buddha CEO: Five Mantras for Your Workday

BJ Gallagher | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Business, Buddha, Dalai Lama, Money, Mindfulness, Tibet, Bad Bosses, Karma, Bosses, Profitability, Compassion, Productivity, Happiness, Difficult People, Business News

If you really want to be a good student of the Buddha and you're willing to take on a difficult learning assignment, here's a radical suggestion: love your problem people. They can teach you lessons that wonderful people never can.

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Obsessed With Success: David Brooks Warns of Cultural Decline

Nicole Glass | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Success, Reason, American University, Karl Popper, David Brooks, Synchronicity, Rene Descartes, Productivity, College News

This fixation we have on productivity is an epidemic that is destroying character and transforming men into automatons.

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Avoiding Key Mistakes on the Way to Innovation

Bob Eckert | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Marketing, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Innovation, Research, Business, Creative Education Foundation, Productivity, Business News

The bottom line is that because nation-states, commercial enterprises, and almost any group of humans, are at their most basic nature competitive; it will be the most innovative who thrive.

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More Workers Filing Lawsuits To Claim Unpaid Overtime

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Working Overtime, Overtime Pay, Lawsuit Overtime Pay, Video, Overtime Lawsuit, Corporate Profits, Unpaid Overtime Pay Lawsuit, Overtime Work, Overtime Pay Lawsuit, Work Productivity, Lawsuit Overtime, Unpaid Overtime, Lawsuit Unpaid Overtime Pay, Overtime, Productivity, Business News

More workers are fighting back against their employers. Workers filed 32 percent more lawsuits against their employers for unpaid overtime last ye...

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Hacking the Federal Log Jam: One Agency at a Time

Adam Levin | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Economic Development Administration, SEC Porn, Facebook, Anonymous, Eda, Productivity, Hackers, Twitter, Social Networks, Social Networking, Politics News

Twelve weeks ago, the Economic Development Administration was the target of a sophisticated hack attack. What's shocking is not that it happened, it's that despite the return to pre-historic fax-machine technology, the EDA seems to be functioning fairly well, perhaps even better in some ways.

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How to Avoid Burnout by Frequently Rewarding Yourself

Hillary Rettig | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Rewards, Personal Motivation, Idividual Rewards, Personal Rewards, Self Rewards, Productivity, Motivation, Daily Rewards, Self-Help, Money News

Rewards refuel you and really are one of the key engines of productivity and non-perfectionism.

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Major U.S. Corporations Squeezing Even More Money Out Of Employees

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Productivity Per Employee, Revenue Per Employee, Corporate Profits, Employee Revenue, S&P 500, Video, Profit, Profits, Revenue, Revenue Employee, Revenues, S&P 500 Companies, Productivity, Employee Productivity, Business News

Major corporations are making certain they get their money's worth out of each individual employee. S&P 500 companies made an average $420,000 in ...

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Life at High Speed: Productivity Tools and Brain Optimization

Shaahin Cheyene | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Work Productivity, Time Management, Productivity, Business News

Life is short. In our fast-paced lives it seems as if time is the one commodity of which we never have enough. As an effective person it seems that yo...

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Take Your Menopause to Work Day

Ellen Dolgen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Hot Flashes, Women, Depression, Aging, Employees, Absenteeism, Economy, Perimenopause, Menopause, Presenteeism, Workplace, Work, Health, Insomnia, Menopause Symptoms, Book on Menopause, Health Care, Productivity, Fifty News

Without a daycare program where women can leave their hot flashes and discomfort, the best step companies can take is to educate their employees and employers.

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Death, Taxes and To-Do Lists: You Can Take the Sting Out of One of Them

Janet Carlson | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Tax Time, To-Do Lists, Management, Control, Organization, Productivity, Stress, Tips for Stress, Things to Do, Tips on Stress, Gps-Soul, Stress Less, To Do List, To Do Lists, Anxiety, Stress Tips, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News

I've found a way to tame the "to-do list" beast. It came to me a few years ago, when I was trying to establish a better balance between work and whatever else.

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The Productivity Paradox

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Manufacturing, Work Productivity, Economy, Productivity, Business News

In a perfect world, no economist who has never visited a modern industrial workplace or spent time with real world business executives would be allowed to write commentaries about the state of manufacturing. Alas, we do not live in a perfect world.

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Worse Than the Great Depression: What Experts Are Missing About American Manufacturing's Decline

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Manufacturing, Productivity, Politics News

The conventional wisdom that U.S. manufacturing job loss is simply a result of productivity-driven restructuring is fundamentally flawed.

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