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The most extraordinary professional relationships are built by ordinary actions like these.
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"... the best way to get more done may be to spend more time doing less. A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal — including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office and longer, more frequent vacations — boosts productivity, job performance and, of course, health"
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When I was younger I thought busy people were more important than everyone else. Otherwise why would they be so busy? I had busy bosses, busy parents, and always I just thought they must have reall...
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Using willpower to achieve goals may be futile without a clear picture of the future.
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Distraction at the office is hardly new, but as screens multiply and managers push frazzled workers to do more with less, businesses say the problem is worsening. Companies are experimenting with strategies to keep workers focused.
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You wouldn’t deliberately dilute your own credibility. But it’s possible that some of your innocent behaviors are producing precisely that unintended consequence.Credibility problems can come in the form of trust busters.
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Eight out of ten employees now gulp a quick lunch at their desks, says a new survey. But not taking a breather during the day, even for just a few minutes, is a recipe for burnout. The paradox here is that by pushing people too hard, you actually make them less productive. But if employees learn to manage their energy better, partly by taking short respites from work throughout the day, they get far more done, and add much more value, in far less time.
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Procrastination is often what stands between you and the results you desire. Try this simple strategy to break free from it.
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Just how uneasy lies the head that wears the crown? Not so uneasy, it turns out. A new study reveals that those who sit atop the nation's political, military, business and nonprofit organizations are actually pretty chill. Compared with people of similar age, gender and ethnicity who haven't made it to the top, leaders pronounced themselves less stressed and anxious. And their levels of cortisol, a hormone that circulates at high levels in the chronically stressed, told the same story. The source of the leaders' relative serenity was pretty simple: control.
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No matter how much you may hate it, negotiating is a critical skill. It is essential that you know the science behind negotiation skills and how they affect the other party's psyche. Based on psychological research, here are some negotiation tips that will help you to get what you want.
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In business, productivity doesn’t really have much to do with how often you’re working. It has to do with how often you’re finishing. In other words, the problem isn’t having multiple projects, the problem is having unfinished projects
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Is social media the future of work? A new report from McKinsey Global Institute makes the business case for social media. According to an analysis of 4,200 companies, social technologies stand to unlock from $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in value. Right now, only five percent of all communications and content use in the U.S. happens on social networks, mainly in the form of content sharing and online socializing. But McKinsey analysts point out that almost any human interaction in the workplace can be "socialized"--endowed with the speed, scale, and disruptive economics of the Internet.
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Are your employees doing personal tasks at work? Of course. And they also are doing work from home. So smart managers are starting to relax about what is being done where. As the workday strays further from the traditional 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. structure, how do employees figure out when it’s permissible to slip in time for personal business — and determine what types of “life-related” tasks are acceptable?
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To say yes to the right things, you have to learn to say an effective no.
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If you think you're good at multitasking, you're probably just fooling yourself. That's the point of a new study in the journal PLOS One, showing that people who think they are awesome at multitasking are also the ones who are pretty terrible at it.
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Most of us yearn for promotions, but we rarely think about improving our job performance. Georgetown professor Cal Newport suggest taking cues from elite athletes and musicians and deliberately set out to practice our work.
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Put an end to failed New Year's resolutions. The key to accomplishing a grand vision is to work your way there with small, manageable goals.
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Mastering new skills is not optional in today's business environment. "In a fast-moving, competitive world, being able to learn new skills is one of the keys to success. It's not enough to be smart — you need to always be getting smarter," says Heidi Grant Halvorson, a motivational psychologist and author of the HBR Single Nine Things Successful People Do Differently.
Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and coauthor of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business, agrees: "We need to constantly look for opportunities to stretch ourselves in ways that may not always feel comfortable at first. Continual improvement is necessary to get ahead."
Here are some principles to follow in your quest for self-improvement:
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It's often said that optimistic people are born with the tendency to see the glass as half-full. That may be true.But there’s another truth that’s more important: Optimism isn’t just an innate temperament trait — it’s also a skill that can be learned.
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Incessant exposure to negativity isn’t just a drag -- it’s actually bad for your brain, researchers say. Here are some ways to protect yourself.
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Now that information is ubiquitous, the obligation changes. It's no longer okay to not know. If you don't know what a word means, look it up. If you're meeting with someone, check them out in advance. If it sounds too good to be true, Google it before you forward it. If you don't know what questions to ask your doctor, find them before your appointment. If it's important, do your homework. I confess that I'm amazed when I meet hard-working, smart people who are completely clueless about how their industry works, how their tools work...It never made sense to be proud of being ignorant, but we're in a new era now. Look it up.
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One thing most self-taught (and self-made) people have in common is curiosity—immense, driving curiosity. If you can develop your curiosity and have patience, you can learn anything on your own.
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You need to routinize routine decisions to save your mental energy for important decisions.
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As you build your career, your initial progress is slow. But through deliberate practice, you gain traction, entering into a virtuous cycle that propels you into a sweet spot of accelerating competence and confidence. Then, as you approach mastery, the more habitual the work becomes, the less you enjoy the "feel good" effects of learning: these two cycles constitute the S-curve. Understanding the S-curve of skill development can help you be less discouraged when you are acquiring new skills, and it also explains why you need to throw yourself a curve once you have achieved mastery of a skill.
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The biggest difference between you and Picasso, or Einstein, or whoever your heroes are is that they out work you. They spend more time in front of a canvas, or guitar, or computer, working away at applying their minds and souls to specific things.
Want to be more creative? Pick a problem you care about and get to work. If you don’t care about anything, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s apathy. If you start things and give up, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s dedication.
Few people in history that we call creatives today read books or took courses on creativity. Instead they apprenticed with masters in a craft and worked with them. They did the grunt work until they had the skills needed to do more sophisticated work. They learned how to develop ideas and deliver finished work by working. There is no other way.
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