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Representative Image: Science has taken strides toward bolstering mental strength.

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File Under DUH: A More Civil Workplace Boosts Creativity

A new study probes what happens when the workplace is informed by “political correctness.”

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Four Infographics to Help You Get Back to Work in 2014

As we come back from the scramble and hopefully reprieve of the holiday season, it seemed like the right time to (re)turn our attention to the...

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What I Learned in 2013: “I Had to Become More Efficient Creatively”

I was working happily on a new film with my team and out of the blue I received a call from AOL to do a new original series of films.   I...

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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.