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Workplace Re-Design

From Yahoo Finance: Davison International Inc., a 285-employee company that designs and creates kitchen gadgets, toys and other consumer products, relocated in 2006 to a 61,000-square-foot building in Pittsburgh, Pa. Its interior, which followed a year-long, $5 million renovation, is intended to encourage creativity and a positive attitude among staff. One third of its inventions [...]

Getting Paid for Existing vs the Great Thanksgiving Hoax

My Friend Ja-Nae Duane posted a link to a HBR article on Google Plus this morning: Tackling Business Problems We’ve talked about this since the financial meltdown. Now it’s time to do it: Unlink pay from performance. The evidence keeps growing that pay for performance is ineffective. It also may induce executives to take company-killing [...]

May 29, 2009 in Productivity

Here is a quick list of posts from some of my friends in the Productivity space:

Dragos Roua of eDragonu discusses how Blogging can be a huge personal development tool, helping you to organize your thoughts, develop your writing technique and creating and fostering new personal contacts and relationships in Blogging As A Personal Development Tool. http://www.edragonu.ro/blogging-as-a-personal-development-tool/

Easton Ellsworth of Visionary Blogging covers the 25 Ways To Mix Your Blog And Facebook. From creating a Fan page for your blog on facebook, to joining and promoting your blog on groups that cover the same topic, this is a list of 25 ways to combine your blog and facebook presence to work together to help your business or organization become more successful. http://www.visionaryblogging.com/blog-facebook/

Paul Dickinson of Stepcase Lifehack writes about Dealing With Distractions and the three levels of concentration from the acknowledgment that something needs to be done to the point of 100% concentration with no outside noise, and his tips to get there, including disconecting yourself from the internet. http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/dealing-with-distractions.html

Erin Doland of Unclutterer writes about all the excuses we give not to get things organized in her article Do You Have A Big But..? http://unclutterer.com/2009/05/27/do-you-have-a-big-but/

Sheen of Sheen Online writes about how to make your email inbox easy to manage and under control in his article Turn Your Inbox Into Hot Lava. With tios about filters and maintence this article can help you regain control of your overflowing inbox. http://sheenonline.biz/2009/05/turn-your-inbox-into-hot-lava/

Dave Navarro of Rock Your Day writes about what to do when you’re suddenly completely overwhelmed with work in his article How To Get Balanced When Life Freakin’ Explodes At You. With tips on how to decide what’s important, what can wait and how to cope with that. http://www.rockyourday.com/how-to-get-balanced-when-life-freakin-explodes-at-you/

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