Productivity

Man’s New Best Friend

< p style=”text-align: center;”> According to a story in The Boston Globe, it’s when Chad Barraford opens his front door and swipes a radio frequency identification tag through a scanner linked to his home computer that extraordinary things happen. Welcome home, Chad,’’ says a voice coming from a wall speaker. “You’ve been away for 1

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Improve Your Listening Skills

GetEntrepreneurial.com: In the business world, it pays to listen and know how to ask the right questions. Miscommunication and misunderstanding can lead to problems… unhappy customers, lost sales, excess inventory, misunderstood instructions, shoddy work, and disgruntled employees … all influencing your company’s bottom line. A good listener can build trust, empathy, and understanding by practicing

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Light Bulbs Make Us Better Thinkers

According to Fast Company, we have been trained so well to associate the light bulb with insight and creative thinking that simply sitting under one can inspire, well, insight and creative thinking. That’s the conclusion researchers at Tufts University came up with after putting students through a series of experiments under both a bare incandescent

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The Post-It Note Secret

Mark McGuinness over at the99percent.com shares his productivity secret…the Post-It note. Not the smallest size, but the 3″ x 3″ squares. The Post-It contains my to-do list for today, and today only. Because my day is a limited size, I figure it makes sense to limit the size of my to-do list. If I can’t

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Man’s New Best Friend

According to a story in The Boston Globe, it’s when Chad Barraford opens his front door and swipes a radio frequency identification tag through a scanner linked to his home computer that extraordinary things happen. Welcome home, Chad,’’ says a voice coming from a wall speaker. “You’ve been away for 1 hour and 15 minutes.’’

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Working Smarter Not Harder

How much time do you spend working each day? Here are some tips from BusinessNewsDaily to help you work smarter. Prioritize your to-do list– Workers can increase productivity by prioritizing tasks based on what needs to be done and what can wait. Focus– Workers should also try to set aside specific times during each day

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Goodbye Rosie…

Geraldine Doyle was just 17 when she took a job at a metal pressing plant near Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1942. AFP reports that she was there when a United Press International photographer came to the factory while documenting the contribution of women to the war effort. A picture of Doyle was later used by

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