As I sit here typing away in my mom's Midwestern home, technically on vacation, the irony of this piece from Huffington Post doesn't at all fail to strike me. According to the article: "U.S. workers …
Don’t Make This Any Harder: Avoiding Business Burnout
"Work smarter not harder": it’s a cringe-worthy business cliché on par with “working outside the box” and “snackable” content. It finds its origins in a misguided 1970s campaign to get more high …
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Learning to Learn: 5 Ways to Optimize Your To-Do List
The age old to-do list — a common tool to help get $#&T done. In my years of to-do listing, I’ve discovered that it is often this common productivity trick that actually prevents me from being …
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Universal Team Leaders and the Importance of Being an All-Star
The value of niche skill sets is changing; where once the challenge of having a narrow focus on something like programming or writing was a matter of simply being the best at that thing, today’s …
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Top 10 Mindjet MindManager Features You Didn’t Know About – Part II
This article is an update to a previous Conspire blog entry posted by my colleague Michael Deutch in 2009. In that entry he used the famous 80/20 rule to illustrate 10 Mindjet MindManager features you …
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5 Time-Management Blogs You Should Be Following
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and …
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