January 2013
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An Ode to Distributed Teams
There’s not much mystery behind how a distributed team works. We show up, in our respective locations, talk to each other, and make stuff happen. The alchemy of coming together to make it work is the same that any team experiences when they build something together. There are a lot of ingredients that go into that magic, and these days, people’s physical proximity to each other is not necessarily...
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“You’ve got to be audacious enough to set goals that make you stretch and give...”
– Jacqueline Novogratz, chief executive of the Acumen Fund, on the balance of audacity and humility necessary to innovate.
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The Wall Street Journal’s At Work blog put together a great collection of 10 career and work resolutions for the new year. We can definitely get on board with: Redo Your To-Do List.
Heidi Grant Halvorson explains a particular strategy called if-then planning:
The trick is to not only decide what you need to do, but to also decide when andwhere you will do it, in advance. The general...
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Improve Your Awareness by Checking your...
Ever get so caught up in a task that you don’t notice something in plain sight? There’s actually a term for that — inattentional blindness — a state of unseeing created by where you’re focusing your attention.
A famous example of inattentional blindness is the invisible gorilla study. Before participants watch a video of two teams of three people passing a basketball, they are told to carefully...
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“As a manager, you need to know who’s wilting under the pace or workload…...”
– Dr. David Posen, author of the forthcoming book, Is Work Killing You? A Doctor’s Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress in a Q&A with the WSJ At Work blog.
Dr. Posen breaks down three main causes of workplace stress: volume, velocity, and abuse. There are longer hours and faster...
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Toot Your Own Horn or Get Left Behind
Women face tough challenges in accessing leadership opportunities. Just look at the numbers. While women make up 51.4% of middle managers, they account for a mere 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEOs.
During law school, I participated in a clinical program where students work in the field while receiving practical training and guidance. While discussing a self-evaluation written after a client interview...
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How Ravelry Stitches its Creative Community...
Ravelry is a website for knitters, crocheters, spinners, and other people into fibers, with close to 2.7 million users, or “Ravellers”, around the world. The site houses a rich database of patterns and reference information, ways to keep track of projects and stock of your yarns, and a forum for its Ravellers to interact.
In fact, Ravelry has been called “the best social network you’ve...
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5 Ways to Transmit Awesome Customer Service From...
No customer service is an island. You just can’t deliver great customer care alone.
These days, customers are tech-savvy, creative, and communicative. Some customers may want to build extensions and plugins to your service. In fact, we owe many of our iDoneThis “goodies“ to ingenious users who built them to better suit their workflow. Others request features or find ways to adapt your...
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Why Logic is an Unproductive Way to Address...
As Chief Happiness Officer, Ginni ensures that iDoneThis is helping teams and companies stay connected, enhance productivity, and improve their inner work life. Every so often, a team leader will reach out to ask why some team members just aren’t getting on board. It hasn’t been a straightforward question to resolve, so Ginni reached out to friend, time coach and productivity expert Elizabeth...
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Avoiding the Vanity Work Trap
If you’re in the business of dealing with web and social media metrics or are familiar with entrepreneur and The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, you probably know about vanity metrics. Basically, these are numbers that sound impressive but don’t necessarily mean anything of significance because they’re not actionable by themselves. In other words, vanity metrics are “good for feeling awesome,...
Welcome Janet Choi to the iDoneThis Team!
Hello! I’m Janet, and I’m delighted to be joining the iDoneThis team full-time!
It’s been thrilling to see iDoneThis evolve while I’ve been freelance writing and editing for the company for about a year. I’m excited to contribute to its growth as Marketing Director, doing content and product marketing and continuing to helm the blog.
In the past, I was an editor at Opera News and, as...
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“So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of...”
– Alain de Botton, in his July 2009 TED Talk about success.
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Light the way forward, friends!
