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5 Early Birds Share Everyday Productivity Strategies

We can't all be morning people, but we can crib from the caffeine-stained playbooks of successful early risers. Here's how.READ»

Organize Your iPhone Or Android Home Screen For Smarter Daily Use

If you think you’re tapping, swiping, and sighing over your phone more than you need to, you’re probably right.READ»

Self-Image Is The Key To Success In Business And In Life

For most people, their perceived limitations are far more restrictive than their true limitations. READ»

Jot Once, Remember Anywhere: The Best Tools For Universal Note-Taking

You've got a system for your documents and files, but what about your quickly scribbled-down ideas? We review the modern tools of universal capture.READ»

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too).READ»

Work Smart: Overcoming Consensus

How do you make everyone happy in a creative project with multiple constituencies?READ»

How To Make The Most Of The Post-Holiday Lull

What can you get out of a week where nobody's around? New clothes, new perspective, and a healthier, more productive schedule, for starters.READ»

Hack Your Productivity: A Time-Management Geek's 10-Minute Solution

All super-successful people have one thing in common: They achieve more in less time than the rest of us. They each follow their own system, and I’ve tried some version of every one. But two weeks ago I tried something new. And with the early results in, it’s the clear winner. If you want to rip out of the gates in 2012 on fire, give this method a shot. It will take just 10 minutes a day.READ»

Work Smart: Fighting Your Way To Creative Breakthroughs

When I ask creative teams to tell me about how they push ideas to fruition, one of the things they swear by is fighting.READ»

Why In-Person Socializing Is A Mandatory To-Do Item

We are genetically oriented toward learning from others, an easy thing to forget these days. Here's why in-person socializing is so important, and efficient.READ»

Huddle CEO Alastair Mitchell's Secret Weapon: Naivete

"I wanted to make something bigger than myself," says Mitchell.READ»

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For Writing Things Out

Paper, with your handwriting on it, makes the best idea space, to-do list, and performance anxiety reliever. Here's why.READ»

Goals: The Difference Between Success And Failure

Goals are critical to ensure success in any discipline--but it’s not enough to simply create a mental list. Below are steps to help you set and achieve your goalsREAD»

Work Smart: Optimize Your Life With A/Me Testing

The old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is wrong--it cripples us when it comes to optimizing what works.READ»

Work Smart: How To Find Your Sweet Spot

The greatest achievements happen in the overlap of three things: Your genuine interests, skills, and opportunities. READ»

Helping Your Employees Find Their "Flow"

We all know the saying "If you want something done, give it to a busy person." It’s sound advice--but it’s also dangerous unless you step back to see what impact it might have on the busy person’s work experience, lest managers end up punishing their most productive people. READ»

Unpredictable Rewards: Twitter's "Activity" Stream And Our Dwindling Attention Reservoir

Do Twitter's Activity area and Facebook's Ticker give you anything you really need to know? With features like these, says Mike Monteiro, design director at Mule Design Studio, "you’re sniffing the exhaust fumes of activity.” That doesn't sound good.READ»

3 Proven Strategies To Keep The Internet From Killing Your Productivity

You're probably reading this article during your workday as a distraction from whatever it is you’re supposed to be focusing on, which is likely sitting open and untouched in another window. Imagine how much you’d get done and how many fewer hours you'd have to work if the Internet weren't eating up all your time--follow these easy steps and you can make it happen. READ»

Leadership Hall of Fame: David Allen, Author of "Getting Things Done"

Has productivity changed as technology has evolved, from the utility of iPhones to the connectedness of Facebook? We continue our examination of the business book "Getting Things Done" with an interview of author David Allen. READ»

How Bad Plans And "Good Ideas" Ruin Meetings

Does your company plan things correctly? Or are meetings unproductive due to poor planning? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.READ»