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Podcast 114: Organizing systems for growth

Clutter Coach

When a company is small, especially if it’s just one person, procedures and methods happen organically and are easily learned by everyone. If you have a cubicle you can get away with more clutter since you’re the main one who sees it, but not when you’re sitting in the open.

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How to Manage (and Minimize) Workplace Interruptions

Eat Your Career

When establishing timelines, negotiating deadlines, or simply outlining your day, recognize that you’ll probably be thrown off course a few times. So, as his secretary, I learned to intentionally leave a few gaps in his schedule each day, just in case. Stop being surprised by interruptions! Plan for them! Don’t beat around the bush.

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Hacking Corporate: How to Create the Work Environment You Want

Productivityist

Which environment creates more value: one where employees have autonomy to pursue a challenging, purpose-driven career, or one where he or she is constrained to a cubicle, micro-managed, and challenged with unnecessary meetings? Learn which activities or projects are perceived as unnecessary overhead to the higher-ups. Lead By Example.

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Dealing Effectively With Information Overload At Work

Productivity Bits

Make your car a mini-extension of your office or cubicle. When nagging deadlines confront you head on, learn to negotiate. Negotiate deadlines if possible to give yourself more time to finish your tasks or project. Use Technology To Automate. Study the patterns of your recurring tasks.

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Office Politics Can't Be Ignored

On The Job

In a perfect cubicle world, office politics would cease to exist. You don’t have to lie, cheat, steal or cause physical harm – but you can listen, learn, be professional and ethical. Remember that if you hold a grudge, then it bars you from learning from the experience and moving on. Here are some things to think about: 1.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

You’d better learn to lead yourself first. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. When you learn to coax the best from yourself, success is assured. Singer made following his heart the same as following life’s plan for him, instead of fighting it like most of us do.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: 6 tips for handling a pregnancy and.

On The Job

One of first things a woman must learn is that just because she is excited about her pregnancy, it doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same, Greenfield says. If you are working at your peak, your value to your employer will probably be higher than most others when you are pregnant, giving you the leeway to negotiate a flexible work schedule.

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