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People Think the Best Collaboration Tool Is Trusty Old Email

Contrary to popular naysaying, email isn't dead—it's evolving.

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'Coffitivity' Brings the Productivity-Boosting Hum of a Coffee Shop to Your Home

Well, this is a whole new level of remote working. It's well-known that freelancers, students, and the like will take their laptops to coffee...

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Ask Yourself: Why Do You Do the Work You Do?

In the last several weeks, I had two radically different experiences spending extended time with leaders at two large, global companies. A long, alcohol-fueled dinner with the first group was a pure downer: dull, rote, and devoid of positive energy.

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Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults

For more than a decade now, I've struggled to define what fuels the most sustainably productive work environment—not just on behalf of the large...

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Intermission: The Science of Productivity

Science can tell us a lot about how to actually get things done.

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Intermission: What If Money Didn't Matter?

British philosopher Alan Watts encourages prioritizing without taking money into consideration.

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On University of Colorado Football, the Fiscal Cliff, and Deliberate Problem Solving

We see so many institutions solve problems in crisis mode. Let's not do that in our own lives.

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Necessary Roughness: Could a Slapping Assistant Boost Your Productivity?

Productivity blogs can get kind of dry, so I was lured in by a post that claimed that getting slapped quadrupled a poster's productivity.

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Punching the Clock: Hours Worked Has Little to do With Productivity

Get your stuff done. Then quit staring at your email. Come back to work recharged and ready to be awesome.

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The Outdoor Office: Better for Morale and the Environment

A designer imagines office space for the outdoors.

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Ask Yourself: Why Do You Do the Work You Do?

In the last several weeks, I had two radically different experiences spending extended time with leaders at two large, global companies. A long, alcohol-fueled dinner with the first group was a pure downer: dull, rote, and devoid of positive energy.

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Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults

For more than a decade now, I've struggled to define what fuels the most sustainably productive work environment—not just on behalf of the large...

Intermission: The Science of Productivity

Science can tell us a lot about how to actually get things done.

Intermission: What If Money Didn't Matter?

British philosopher Alan Watts encourages prioritizing without taking money into consideration.

On University of Colorado Football, the Fiscal Cliff, and Deliberate Problem Solving

We see so many institutions solve problems in crisis mode. Let's not do that in our own lives.

Necessary Roughness: Could a Slapping Assistant Boost Your Productivity?

Productivity blogs can get kind of dry, so I was lured in by a post that claimed that getting slapped quadrupled a poster's productivity.

Punching the Clock: Hours Worked Has Little to do With Productivity

Get your stuff done. Then quit staring at your email. Come back to work recharged and ready to be awesome.

The Outdoor Office: Better for Morale and the Environment

A designer imagines office space for the outdoors.

Is Email Making You Useless? An Argument for 'Opt-In' Protocol

Oscar Berg takes issue with the way email organizes information and puts the burden on the recipient.

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Contrary to popular naysaying, email isn't dead—it's evolving.

Well, this is a whole new level of remote working. It's well-known that freelancers, students, and the like will take their laptops to coffee...

In the last several weeks, I had two radically different experiences spending extended time with leaders at two large, global companies. A long, alcohol-fueled dinner with the first group was a pure downer: dull, rote, and devoid of positive energy.

For more than a decade now, I've struggled to define what fuels the most sustainably productive work environment—not just on behalf of the large...

Science can tell us a lot about how to actually get things done.

British philosopher Alan Watts encourages prioritizing without taking money into consideration.

We see so many institutions solve problems in crisis mode. Let's not do that in our own lives.

Productivity blogs can get kind of dry, so I was lured in by a post that claimed that getting slapped quadrupled a poster's productivity.

Get your stuff done. Then quit staring at your email. Come back to work recharged and ready to be awesome.

A designer imagines office space for the outdoors.

Oscar Berg takes issue with the way email organizes information and puts the burden on the recipient.

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