Category Archives: Productivity
Productivity Wednesday #7 : Use Email to Connect with Potential Followers
Looking to build your connectivity on Linked In? Increase your followers on Twitter or Friends on Facebook? Chances are you already communicate with a lot of people via e-mail, but you haven’t taken the time to connect with them elsewhere.
Rapportive [...]
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Productivity Wednesday #6 : Share Digital Content on Social Media with Buffer
If you read a lot of digital content, you should share a lot. The problem is that you probably read in spurts. If you shared in spurts, you would probably annoy your friends. Buffer helps fix that problem.
Buffer has great [...]
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Productivity Wednesday #5 : Boomerang for GMail
Sometimes when Getting Things Done, you need a little more power in your inbox than the default. Boomerang for GMail is the extra horsepower you need. A few things that Boomerang provides.
1. Send Mail Later
Sometimes you want to send e-mail [...]
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Sunday Book Review : Simpleology by Mark Joyner
Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want by Mark Joyner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This one was a little too self help, buy into my product for my liking. I think that the sections on logic and reasoning [...]
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Hierarchy of Reading
Abraham Maslow made the concept of hierarchies of progression in systems popular via his work on a hierarchy of needs. Below is a theory about the hierarchy of different types of readers.
Survival Reader
Only reads when critical to survival. This type of reader regularly denounces [...]
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10 Steps for Planning a Great Event
The most difficult part about planning an event is knowing where to start. At Gangplank, we plan a lot of events. We have created a simple process that allows us to jump right into planning.
We assemble those involved in the [...]
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Hacking Standups – I Feel Exposed
At Integrum we regularly find new things to try as a result of our regular team retrospectives. Recently, the team had a lot of discussion about what it takes to make teams great. There was a lot of discussion about [...]
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40 Sleep Hacks to Get Your Sleep On
Working in an industry with people that seem to be incapable of being up at a reasonable time regularly always fills me with ire. Recently, I stumbled across a free e-book of 40 sleeping hacks. It made me realize that [...]
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Notes From Fierce Leadership
Quotes and notes from Fierce Leadership by Susan Scott.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinions. — Jack Kerouac
Your most valuable currency is relationship. Emotional capital.
Conventional measures of business success shouldn’t be ignored. Human [...]
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Sunday Book Review: Making It All Work by David Allen
Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life by David Allen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Really good content, but a lot of rehashing from original GTD. If you haven’t read GTD in a [...]
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