February 2013
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7 Invaluable Collaboration and Communication Tools...
Recently, an internal memo from Yahoo announcing a ban on working from home has sparked a feisty debate about the merits of working remotely. The explanation given for the policy change comes down to one sentence in the memo: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side.”
As a distributed team ourselves,...
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“Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring...”
– Clayton Christensen in Wired, “Clayton Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism”
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How C2I Intel Overcomes the Knowledge Gap to...
Knowledge is power, and when you’re an entrepreneur and running a small business, it’s a challenge to get sufficient people-power to catch all the relevant information and news out there. We talked with Michelle Frome, president of C2I Intel, which solves that problem by delivering that knowledge directly, providing competitor and industry intelligence to help companies gain a leg up.
Michelle’s...
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Share More Feedback and Recognition with...
Many of you told us that you wanted to be able to give specific feedback on people’s dones, and we couldn’t have agreed more. So we’ve revamped the feedback system so that you can now add comments and likes to individual dones — on the web and through your email digests!
These changes may seem simple, but for us, these small improvements are significant. We had a hunch that improving the...
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“I … went to work again–work, the normal life of every human being; work,...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman, on why she wrote The Yellow Wall-paper, after a specialist had told her to refrain from intellectual life, “never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again,” — words which led her to near “mental ruin.” Indeed, it is heartening to remember that there is...
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The Struggles of Managing the Invisible
The peculiar challenge of knowledge work is that so much of it takes place in our heads and out of sight. In contrast to the era of factory work, knowledge work is nowhere near as visible. You can’t discern the state of progress by looking at tangible output or product.
Photo: Shreyans Bhansali
This poses a particular problem for managers, whose job it is to support their employees and enable...
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“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
– Chinese Proverb
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8 Expensive Lessons in Project Management, for...
When it comes to project management, it’s so much cheaper to learn from someone else’s mistakes. So here are a few of mine!
I’ve been running projects for my whole adult life. I started with computer games at IG. After ten years I switched to marketing and copywriting projects at Articulate Marketing, which I still run. On top of that, I’m now also CEO of Turbine, an online app for purchases,...
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The Perks of Considering Your Plan "Dead"
Sometimes the sheer clarity of hindsight is like life’s annoying way of saying, “I told you so!” Looking in the rearview mirror to see what went wrong is integral to learning from our mistakes, but we often wish for hindsight’s clear vision when we’re forging our way forward. Research psychologist Gary Klein has a startling prescription for that feeling: imagine your plan’s death.
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“Just the act of jotting something down is an act of discipline that affects how...”
– Andrew Leonard, on the quantified self movement in “Can your iPhone Help You Lose Weight?”
Self-knowledge can lead to self-improvement. Check your life’s blind spots in order to work and live better.
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“Dreaming is at the heart of disruption — it is only when we dream that we can...”
– Whitney Johnson, in a great HBR blog post about paying attention to our dreams and who we are.
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How to Get Your Team to Stick to New Habits
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. Ginni reached out to friend, time coach and productivity expert Elizabeth Grace Saunders for some advice. (This is the 2nd of a 3-part...
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3 Tools to Speed Up Customer Service Traffic
Great customer service requires great communication. LaunchBit, an ad network for email newsletters, manages a ton of communication with their publishing and advertising partners. CEO and co-founder Elizabeth Yin shares LaunchBit’s secrets to speedy, efficient customer service, dealing with high volume while maintaining high quality.
When my co-founder and I first started LaunchBit, we were...
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The Entrepreneur's Journey: Slowing Down and Why...
Are entrepreneurs always dissatisfied?
It’s hard to stop and bask in your own achievements. It’s why we strive to build a tool that shows you how far you’ve come to motivate and inspire. Daniel DiPiazza, who works with plenty of young go-getters brimming with restless, entrepreneurial spirit, reminds us about the importance of learning to relax and appreciate your own hard work.
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