How Did We End Up with So Many Meetings?
Meetings are a necessity. Meetings also often stink. Typically, they are a waste of time.
RiShawn Biddle
Productivity
RiShawn Biddle
Don’t Bet the Farm on Brainstorming
I can tell you with some precision the moment I first doubted group brainstorming. This was many moons ago.
Jeremy Lott
4 of Today’s Best Content Management Apps
Calendars are the lifeblood of business operations. They always have been and always will be.
Pratik Dholakiya
Thank God It’s… Thursday?
The best and most creative thinking and problem-solving can only take place during uninterrupted periods of time. You know it and so do your colleagues.
RiShawn Biddle
The Power of Productive Thinking
Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek is an enormously popular book, selling more than 1.35 million copies since its 2007 release.
Andrea Williams
Journaling for Self-Awareness
Charley Kempthorne has been keeping a journal for more than 50 years. Every morning before the sun is in the sky, the professor-turned-painter carefully types…
tashaeurich
Cornering the Paper Tiger
Studying the history of paper, as I did while writing the book Paper: Paging Through History, exposes a number of misconceptions.
markkurlansky
Moleskine Mania
If you ever attend Milan’s Design Week—a sweeping furniture fair, art festival, and Prosecco-soaked party that takes over Italy’s financial capital each…
davidsax
The Science of Putting Pen to Paper
One of my earliest memories involves a handwriting struggle. My class had been tasked with writing stories. I love stories.
Erin Wildermuth
Your Own Personal Time Machine
I spend most of my work-life in meetings. Note-taking is a survival skill. Yet, I am surprised at how few people bother to take notes in meetings.
Michael Hyatt
Automation for the People
If you want to understand how hard it can be to automate, consider the many attempts to replace cashiers with self-checkout systems.
Jeremy Lott
End Your Fear of Power Sharing
It started with my first day on the job. I’d just been named senior leader at a growing organization with a generously-sized staff.
Larry Wilson
Go Viral, and Stay That Way
The question prodding us to increased productivity is almost never, “How do I fit more work into my day?
johnmeese
Why You—Yes, You!—Should Be an Entrepreneur
Back in early 2007, I faced an interesting choice. By just about all accounts, I was doing great as an international sales director for a stable infomercial…
chrisducker
The Science of Meditation
Three years ago I boarded a crowded, somewhat dirty bus and set off for Wat Suan Mokkh, a Thai forest monastery.
Erin Wildermuth
I Love Energy!
“Are you tired, run down, listless? Do you poop out at parties? Are you unpopular? The answer to all of your problems are in this little bottle!
Andrew Lott
A Recipe for Self-Renewal
Time management is about scarcity, because time is fixed. You only have 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week, 8,760 hours in a year (tack on an extra 24 for…
Michael Hyatt
6 Ways to Meditate to Great
In corporate training, I use meditation to help teams to be mindful or present. It can really transform the workplace.
iancron
How the F2F Assessment Changed My Life
In life and in business, there are a lot of distractions. It can be fun to run down those rabbit trails, but it's easy to lose track, and hard to get back to…
roybarberi
Our Soured Romance with Overwork
The idea that working ever harder and longer leads to better results is as American as apple pie, despite all evidence to the contrary.
RiShawn Biddle
The Science of Overwork
In the 2007 film “Music and Lyrics,” an absent-minded lyricist played by Drew Barrymore drives her high-strung musical partner a little crazy by…
Erin Wildermuth
The Do’s and Don’ts of Goal Sharing
I've always done my best to keep up with the latest research in goal achievement. I not only want to learn from it myself, I also want to distill the lessons…
Michael Hyatt
Goal-Winning Strategies of 3 Top Athletes
Few of us run races at the Olympics or score touchdowns in the NFL. But we all play a metaphorical sport in our professional and personal lives.
marcusbrotherton
3 Lessons from a Monthlong Sabbatical
I began my career as a proud workaholic. I measured my contribution by the hours I clocked and the coffee I consumed. So the Michael Hyatt &Co.
mandirivieccio