You know company culture is a big deal. It’s one of the main ways companies distinguishthemselves from one another, which is why you’re probably constantly hearing about it. Techcompanies and startups in particular always seem to be trying to outdo the competition interms of a cool culture full of workplace perks (like these!). But before […]
“The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us isnot,” say Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr in The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, NotTime, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal. Their message: To be aconsistently high performer, you have to manage […]
Putting in longer hours will backfire - follow these four pillars of energy management tobecome more productive You feel the pull from every angle. Your home life demands your time. Your work life demandsyour time. Managing time can feel like the right solution. But if you're mentally, physically,emotionally and spiritually exhausted, more time won't help. […]
“The future of work,” it’s the latest buzz phrase. Five years ago, that meant telecommuting,going paperless, shared workspaces and in-house coffee bars. Today, that topic meansconsidering artificial intelligence, tenuous job security, contingent labor, robotics, jobmigration, talent underutilization, independent contractors on digital-only platforms (everheard of Upwork?) and even workplace monitoring (Can your boss really ask you […]
It's Friday afternoon and the clock is ticking. You're working furiously to complete a task beforethe five o'clock deadline, while silently cursing yourself for not starting it sooner. How did this happen? What went wrong? Why did you lose your focus? Well, there were the hours that you spent re-reading emails and checking social media, […]
Chances are that at this very moment you’re procrastinating on something. Maybe you’re evenreading this article to do so. A while back, I took a year to experiment with every piece of personal productivity advice Icould find. In becoming hyperaware of how I spent my time, I noticed something: Iprocrastinated a lot more often than […]
Breaking bad habits isn't about stopping, but substituting. It's easy to think of habits falling into black and white categories -- exercising good, biting yournails bad. But habits also sit on a continuum in our ability to exercise control over them: Someare mild, like taking off your shoes and dumping in the middle of the […]
Bad habits are often what get us stuck. Ideally, we see what’s happening (I can’t afford myspeeding tickets), and we adjust (drive slower). But sometimes we recognize the bad habit andchoose not to do anything about it, willing to live in stuckness (think procrastination). Thenthere’s the bad habit we don’t even know we have. These […]
The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major causeof social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to beprospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new lows, leadinggovernment officials to set policies that undermine competitiveness and sap economic growth.Business is […]
This is a question all companies should ask themselves before they hire their next employee. It’sdefinitely easier as a start-up, mainly because you have fewer employees. However, what youalso have in your favor is a culture that is highly unique and staff that completely buys into thevision, values and mantra of the company. As a […]
We’re obsessed with work-life balance. There’s no shortage of research, articles, and self-helpbooks trying to help us find and restore a balance between our work and nonwork lives. However,most of the discussion and advice tends to focus on changing individual career decisions, or teamexpectations, or organizational contexts. But what if other factors mattered as well? […]
Because having a successful business is every employer’s dream, companies emphasizeemployee engagement. With an engaged staff of employees, you lower your risk of turnover,boost customer satisfaction, and increase your company’s overall chance of success. Not tomention, there is a slew of accounting benefits of employee engagement. I’ve learned that neither you nor your employees can […]