Robert Story – Productivity

Celebrate Success | Jon Gordon’s Blog | Developing Positive Leaders, Organizations and Teams

Teams and organizations that focus on and celebrate success create more success. Success becomes ingrained in the culture and people naturally look for it, focus on it and expect it. That’s why certain football coaches and business leaders are always successful. They implement systems and principles that create a culture that celebrates and expects success and this drives behavior and habits that create successful outcomes.

Celebrate Success | Jon Gordon’s Blog | Developing Positive Leaders, Organizations and Teams

Google is finally releasing the next best thing: a mobile site that basically replicates a dedicated Google Voice app.

The big advantage of Google’s new Voice app (which is already showing up for Voice users at Lifehacker HQ) is the direct contact access. Rather than having to store secondary numbers or use the somewhat old-school-looking Voice mobile site to pull up your contacts, Google Voice’s new webapp provides super-quick, as-you-type access to your Google Contacts.

Google Voice Arrives on iPhones with HTML5-Powered Webapp – Google Voice – Lifehacker

Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch – dropbox – Lifehacker

Once installed on your device, Dropbox for iPhone provides access to all your Dropbox files, allows you to view any file supported by your iPhone (including documents, photos, music, and video), uploads any photo or video you’ve taken on your device to your Dropbox account, and lets you save any file as a favorite for offline viewing. If you want to share a file in your Dropbox with someone else, the application can generate an email with a link directly to the file.

Read more about this on Lifehacker

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July 8 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most- visited Internet search engine, is developing a computer operating system based on its Chrome Web browser, taking aim at Microsoft Corp. in its strongest market.

The system will be designed at first for low-cost laptops called netbooks, Google said in a blog post. The company is in talks with partners on the project and computers running the software will be available in the second half of 2010.

via Google to Challenge Microsoft With Computer Operating System – Bloomberg.com.

Tim Sanders offers the following “refreshment plan” for your summer:

1. Take at least one week off before Labor Day (if you have it available). Don’t sit around the house, go somewhere where nature will convince you forget about the world.

2. Don’t take your laptop with you on the trip. Carry your cell phone, but give strict instructs that you are only to be bothered with an emergency. Only check your email once every two days.

3. Take a full weekend day off for the rest of the year. Don’t check email or even think about work.

4. Devote one hour a day to exercise and self-education.

Read a compelling story on why you should do this at: Sanders Says: Take a break driver 8

9 ways to edit your presentation : Speaking about Presenting

Long presentations rarely achieve more than short ones. The longer the presentation, the more information there is for audience members to process. And so the less likely they are to get your core message.

Audiobooks: Download The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Audiobook for Free

   Lifehacker is reporting that the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is avaible
   for free download at Audible.com. This is worth checking out.

In his blog, Dennis Snow points to an article that is worth more than a couple of read-throughs, because if you are honest with yourself, you’ll probably come away convicted. As a leader at work, in the community or as a parent (now there I go, getting personal), what are you permitting and therefore promoting? And the even tougher follow-up question…. “Why?”.

What You Permit, You Promote « Sharing thoughts, ideas and suggestions on hardwiring success

If there’s one distinguishing concept between GTD and other productivity systems, it’s the deliberate split between defining a successful outcome and the very next action step toward accomplishing it.

To Do lists tend not to make the distinction, which can mean the difference between the item being perceived as actionable or not actionable.

Read further details on this at: Tools for Thought