Robert Story – Productivity

Hack Attack: Beta test your goals – Lifehacker
It’s foolish to expect that you’ll have instant success with anything you try. You can avoid major disappointment and frustration if you plan ahead and consider the early stages of goal-setting and goal-accomplishing as just that – an early testing period that can potentially bring success, [...]

Working Smart: What’s the Secret to Your Success?
The truth is, you are building your reputation—your brand—one response at a time. People are shaping their view of you by how you respond to them. If you are slow, they assume you are incompetent and over your head. If you respond quickly, they assume you [...]

Headhunter Kelvin Thompson talks about how — and why — to sell yourself as a team player. 
You have to be honest with yourself about where your strengths lie. Don’t focus on the fact that you don’t have certain strengths and have to pretend that you do. That’s the one thing that will distract you from [...]

Getting To Done: Communication – A guide to email triage – Lifehacker
Ever wonder what causes that sinking feeling of dread just before you open your e-mail client? Is it the hundreds of new messages that will mock you in all their need-a-response-asap, unread glory?…

It’s depressing to watch a mean, lean, fighting machine of a company deteriorate into mediocracy. In Silicon Valley we call this process the “bozo explosion.” This downward slide seems inevitable after a company achieves success–often during the years immediately following an IPO. The purpose of this article is to prevent, or at least postpone, this [...]

Dilbert Comic Strip Archive – Dilbert.com – The Official Dilbert Website by Scott Adams – Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers!

Wired News: Work More, Do Less With Tech
Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly released research.
Workers completed two-thirds of their work in an average day last year, down from about three-quarters in a 1994 study, according to [...]

Jonathan Grubb: 8 types of meeting attendees
Some personalities that come out in meetings, especially at big software companies.

Taking a day out
by Britt Parrott
Many people forget how routine their lives are. While this is especially true for those, like me, who have a regular 9-5 job, freelancers often get into their own routines, even while being less constrained by hours and location.
    Doing the same thing over, day after day, contributes [...]

9 tips for running more productive meetings | 43 Folders