Rethinking Productivity
...Your "to-do" list will never be finished. When you look at yours, what feelings does it conjure up? Stress? Overwhelm? Dread? Excitement? Pride?...
...Your "to-do" list will never be finished. When you look at yours, what feelings does it conjure up? Stress? Overwhelm? Dread? Excitement? Pride?...
...Reading Wu Hsin, one must ponder. However, it is not an active pondering, but a passive one, much in the same way as one puts something in the oven and lets it bake for a while...
...Forget the ideal of work/life balance – your needs and interests are much richer than that, and your life can be too...
...Because I have that awareness, I stopped myself and remembered that accumulating money for the sake of having more is not my goal...
...From a fiscal standpoint, we were poor. But from a communal standpoint, we had everything we ever needed...
...Sometimes, being wrong is a minor embarrassment, with very little real cost...
...People on social media are sticking everything from hot dogs to chicken teriyaki in their waffle irons...
...Reconciling previously contradictory results, researchers find that for most people, there's a steady link between higher happiness and more money. The exception is people who are financially well-off but unhappy; for them, more money does not help...
...The right-sized group and ceaseless peer-to-peer organization are the foundation of culture change...
...In a post last year, we laid out the human lifespan visually. By years...
...We spend a lot of time on our (metaphorical) book covers. That first impression, the way we tell our story or introduce ourselves or earn the sale...
...For some, money represents freedom, opportunity, security, or peace of mind. For me, money was a barrier to my goals and dreams. It was the reason I couldn’t do or have the things I wanted in life...
...Most of us tend to ignore micro-stresses and just focus on the big stuff, but the small things require our attention too...
...It’s not that people don’t have the time to offer an honest ‘thank you’. It’s that they don’t want to acknowledge the obligation or connection...
...Part of the challenge of hanging out with cannibals is that it’s very difficult to get a good night’s sleep...
...To increase trust on teams, leaders must understand what influences people’s willingness to trust, as well as what makes leaders trustworthy...
...Upon reaching the top, the new researcher begins doing novel work, throwing new stones onto the top of the mountain and making it a little taller for whoever comes next...
...In other words, how quickly you act after coming to a decision is just as important as how you come to said decision...
...Making personal preferences and working styles explicit speeds up the forming and norming process...
...Understanding the difference between these two points of view is one of the highest leverage ways to improve your and your team’s effectiveness. Failing to understand it is probably one of the largest sources of waste and frustration in most companies...