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File System Preparation Is An Essential Step In Getting Things Done

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. After purging the unnecessary stuff that mounted in your desk and anywhere else, it’s now time to prepare your filing system. Chaos can easily break anywhere in your living space if no filing system is set up to hold the different materials that you accumulate as you work.

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Upcoming and Inwork Productivity System

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. There are various systems people are implementing in their daily workflow to invigorate productivity. The best workflow system, arguably, is the GTD System of David Allen. The GTD system is comprised of different steps wholly aiming at “relaxed, productive state&#.

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Susan Cain’s New Book Explores the Question: What Is Sadness Good For?

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Throughout this process, Docter had an unlikely ally: Dacher Keltner, an influential University of California, Berkeley psychology professor. Our nervous systems make little distinction between our own pain and the pain of others, it turns out; they react similarly to both. Copyright © 2022 by Susan Cain. All rights reserved.

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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

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He’s uncovered multiple insights, hidden gems about the process and psyche of creators. This was their “explicit” or stated belief system. In other words, if people associate the process of creativity with vomit, might they conflate actual creativity with disgust? Copyright © 2022 by Matt Richtel. Nuff said. .

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AI presents us with a chance to rediscover what it means to be human

Workplace Insight

People are not going to beat AI at that game Some commentators have suggested that what we are seeing is only superficially remarkable because all the current systems do is flatten out what already exists and present it back to us. And it is the innovation in the creative process itself that distinguishes the outcome.

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Office Organization - 5 Steps to Setting Up Your Core Systems

Stephanie LH Calahan

Building a successful long-term profitable business isn't about "marketing" your business, it's about "managing" your business - the marketing comes once you have your management systems in place. So what I'd like to share with you today are my top 5 steps to setting up your core office organization systems.

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When you need it later: The Bring-Forward System

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 15 March, 2009 When you need it later: The Bring-Forward System My boss likes me to keep him organized and the way I do that is to have a system to bring forward items, which I then bring to his attention when he needs to see it. Lets enjoy our day together.©