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- Productivity Tip #7: Reclaim Your Meeting
How often do you hear a colleague say, "I’m so excited to attend today’s group meeting," or a student remark, "How is it possible that my group meetings are so stimulating and engaging?"
What’s that? You’ve never heard anyone say those things? Me neither. I dread meetings ...
- Recapture Your Free Time with How to Write a Lot
Do you find your grant-writing intruding on time you’d rather spend with your family? Did revisions to that last journal article ruin your vacation? Then this book might be just the thing you need.
Author Paul Silvia wanted to call How to Write a Lot “How to Write More Prod...
- Productivity Tip #6: I’m Not Telling You to Lie
You don’t have to say you are away to use your “out of office” feature. You just have to be bold. My favorite flavor of bold is the Texan Dean who declares in an email bouceback that the eight people and email addresses listed serve as portals for specific types of emails, in...
- Productivity Tip #4: Do You Put the PRO in Procrastination?
Do You Put the PRO in Procrastination?
Procrastination is closely related to impatience. Their kinship is based on our bias toward the present over the future. Both are examples of the human tendency to overdiscount future events. In both impatience and procrastination, we o...
- Why You Should Read Drive
This is not the book for anyone wanting a quick hit of external motivation to reach a short-term goal. Daniel H. Pink disdains the easy ways out of carrots and sticks, grades and monetary incentives. Instead, Drive details the theory and implementation of what he calls “Motivatio...
- Productivity Tip #1: Have More Meetings (But Keep Them Short)
Do your meetings take an hour to do what could've been accomplished in fifteen minutes? Do you look with dread at the colorful blocks on your Outlook calendar telling you your time is about to be wasted? Here are some ways to trim the fat and make meetings shorter and smart...
- Do More Great Work
Ever wish you had a map to show you how to avoid unnecessary busywork and focus on the work you know you were meant to do? In this jam-packed little volume, Michael Bungay Stanier gives you just such a map--fifteen of them, in fact. His starting premise, that "busy" is not a me...
