When it comes to teams, difference is good. If we were all the same, we might as well be replaced with a bunch of robots.
If a team doesn’t come to conflict, it seldom reaches its potential. Without conflict, teams become stagnant, which affects overall morale, productivity and frankly, your bottom line.
Here are a couple quick reasons how contrasting working styles can be an advantage:
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The Science Behind Why Small Teams Work More Productively.
Why You Shouldn’t Scale Your Startup
Technology: “For everything we gain, we lose something in return.”
Microaggression & Mismanagement
Naps are amazing. ‘nuff said.
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Sending this one email to your boss can change your career.
Loneliness at work is everyone’s problem.
Vanquish procrastination. Seriously.
Face your weakness. Boost your confidence.
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Priorities that come in threes are the magical productivity boost. Triorities!
How WooThemes makes distributed culture succeed.
70% of organizational change efforts fail.
The 3 basic elements of productivity and happiness.
4 Lies to stop telling yourself about productivity.
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How the Buffer team uses iDoneThis to build a truly transparent company.
8 Awesome Tech & Startup Newsletters You Should Be Reading
One way to prevent burnout – the done list.
How to build a collaborative space like Pixar and Google.
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People often hold this ideal about how great work gets done through serendipity, as if brains to stumble upon each other like characters in a romantic comedy. More often, the spark happens when we create the conditions for it to do so. If you really want lightning to strike, you don’t just mosey along empty-handed, you go out there with a lightning rod.
Jon Steinberg, president and COO of Buzzfeed found his lightning rod system, what he calls his “kismet engine.” That fateful engine is Snippets, a surprisingly simple productivity system that originated at Google (known there as Google snippets).
How Snippets works at Buzzfeed is this: employees send Jon a weekly email by the end of the workday on Friday identifying what they’ve been working on and what they need help with. Everyone can also subscribe to each others’ snippets. As for Jon, he reads his compiled snippets over the weekend and then responds with feedback and questions.
ScribbleLive is bringing media companies and brands up to speed with software that allows them to publish, curate, and syndicate content in real-time.
Recently, ScribbleLive powered Boston.com’s liveblog coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and even served as their homepage when the traffic surge caused Boston.com to go down. By providing tools for journalists and media companies to adapt to this era of always-on social media, ScribbleLive helps fill in context and provide reliable reporting of breaking news.
We talked with Matt McCausland, software development manager at Scribblelive, about how the Toronto-based company manages and communicates with each other.
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Don’t lose touch with your customers.
Nonprofits get stuff done too.
Sometimes customers’ solutions become company problems.
“If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy.”
It takes seconds to make someone feel valued.
Dundee wants to know: What was the best thing you got done this week?
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When you’re building a company, what’s the only thing that matters?
The most productive thing you’ll do today is PRACTICE.
The greatest startup hack: math & humble pie.
Make remote work less lonely.
Disconnect from the tubes.
8 ridiculously easy things that make you happier.
Don’t undermine company culture.
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I wasn’t originally sold on the idea of blogging.
Even when I tried to get in the habit of posting, I found it hard to stick with. Blogging took time — time to write essays daily, put in links, clean up spam, and respond to the comments that trickled in, time that was uncompensated. Why, I wondered, would I take time away from paying assignments to put my work out there for free?
Even after my book, 168 Hours, came out in 2010, and I realized I needed to interact with readers, I still thought blogging was a side venture to my real writing. More days than not, I’d take 30-60 minutes to write a post and publish it, but I still viewed it more as a labor of love (or at least PR) than anything else.
Then something funny happened. About a year into daily blogging, I’d carve out time to write a draft of an essay for a newspaper or magazine. I’d give myself until lunch, but by 10:00, I’d be done.