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Work Smart

The apps, tips, tactics, and brain hacks to help you work smarter instead of harder.

This one tiny word is minimizing your impact at work

Four times you’re undercutting your confidence, credibility, and leadership without even meaning to.

This one tiny word is minimizing your impact at work

How to make your anxiety work for you instead of against you

Anxiety is energy, and you can strike the right balance if you know what to look for.

How to make your anxiety work for you instead of against you

5 ways to make tough decisions faster (and not regret them later)

Spending too much time agonizing over choices that later prove ill-advised? This strategy can help.

5 ways to make tough decisions faster (and not regret them later)

4 ways to make anxiety work for you

Don’t let anxiety drive you into overwhelm or procrastination. Here are four ways to beat it and take back your focus.

4 ways to make anxiety work for you

How to use long summer days to boost your productivity

More sunlight means more serotonin and less melatonin, which makes summer a great time to take social risks, wake up earlier, and work more efficiently.

How to use long summer days to boost your productivity

Three steps for saying “no” without making it personal

Impromptu requests for your time and attention come up all the time. Here’s how to handle them professionally, rather than just swatting them away.

Three steps for saying “no” without making it personal

Design your next meeting backwards—here’s how

Stop outlining meeting agendas and take these three steps instead.

Design your next meeting backwards—here’s how

This behavioral designer’s top brain hacks for beating distraction

Author Nir Eyal shares a few tactics for controlling the “internal triggers” that lead our minds to wander while we’re trying to focus.

This behavioral designer’s top brain hacks for beating distraction

How to get back on track when you’re having an unproductive day

A rocky start shouldn’t dictate your entire workday. Do these things to reverse your unproductivity.

How to get back on track when you’re having an unproductive day

This well-known productivity advice is actually pretty bad

A common tactic for kicking off a productive workday doesn’t square with human psychology.

This well-known productivity advice is actually pretty bad

These are the 4 different work styles and how to work with each

Experts have figured out that everyone falls into one of these styles. Once you understand them, you can figure out how everyone can get along.

These are the 4 different work styles and how to work with each

Software is making it easier to cheat workers

Companies are using software and “rounding” to shortchange workers a few minutes at a time, according to hundreds of court cases.

Software is making it easier to cheat workers

What to do on 15-, 30-, and 60-minute breaks to boost productivity

If you aren’t taking regular breaks or don’t feel refreshed and focused after taking a break, you might be doing it wrong.

What to do on 15-, 30-, and 60-minute breaks to boost productivity

Try this 48-hour productivity sprint when you’re behind at work

These productivity habits might be tough to stick with for the long haul, but the good news is you don’t need them for the long haul.

Try this 48-hour productivity sprint when you’re behind at work

This is what’s wrong with your emails

These are the four most common mistakes people make in email that lead to misunderstandings.

This is what’s wrong with your emails

Just had the worst day ever? This 3-question debrief can help

This quick exercise can give you a little perspective, and peace of mind, after a truly crappy workday.

Just had the worst day ever? This 3-question debrief can help

These Are The Reasons Why Your Whole Team Is Burning Out

Burnout is a tricky thing when it comes to team dynamics: It’s highly contagious, but symptoms may vary.

These Are The Reasons Why Your Whole Team Is Burning Out

How I’ve Learned To Get Someone To Put Down Their Phone And Listen

It’s uncomfortable asking for someone to stop texting and give you their full attention. It’s also totally worth it.

How I’ve Learned To Get Someone To Put Down Their Phone And Listen

Are You Overusing Exclamation Marks In Work Emails?

There’s a difference between showing emotion and using emotional intelligence.

Are You Overusing Exclamation Marks In Work Emails?

The Counterintuitive Lesson I Learned From Scheduling “Worry Time”

A sleep expert told me I should dedicate “worry time” in order to sleep better at night. I ended up learning a surprising lesson about worrying instead.

The Counterintuitive Lesson I Learned From Scheduling “Worry Time”

Ideas

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Impact investing is booming–but not nearly enough to make radical change

This real estate company figured out a simple way to offer the homeless a house and a job

Entertainment

Trump inadvertently gets Twitter to explain why rape often goes unreported

Michel Gondry’s no-bs trick to getting the best out of Jim Carrey for “Kidding”

Fast Company Innovation Festival adds Pharrell Williams, Jennifer Garner

Co.Design

PSA: These 1,400 museums are free tomorrow

The ice cream of the future is here, and it has a nipple

Amazon wants to be all around you–even in your microwave

Fast Company

Your startup is failing, now what?

Synthetic rhino horns are supposed to disrupt poaching. Will they work?

NYT: Rod Rosenstein proposed taping Trump, using 25th Amendment