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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

But he made diversity in the workplace a strategic initiative , laid down goals and linked those goals to manager pay. Instead the girls quietly filed into a dreary classroom, shucked their puffy coats, and took their seats behind the keyboards. Krzanich didn’t pretend to have a can’t-miss plan.

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Mission Possible

Office Dynamics

Seeing it propped up on my keyboard tray provides a continual reminder about the initiatives I want to leverage both at work and in my personal life. For example, here is mine, right off a blue index card that sits prominently atop my desk: Be willing to do the best in everything. Mission statements don’t have to be complex.

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The Most Important Trait To Boost Your Productivity

Productivityist

Deciding What To Learn: Goals and Problems. To achieve advanced productivity, our learning has to be connected to a goal or a problem. In deciding what you need to learn, I advocate choosing one of the following paths: Goal-based Learning. We all need to have goals for our lives. There is a world of knowledge out there.

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Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind

Ian's Messy Desk

Put pen to paper (or finger tips to keyboard) and record important dates in a calendar, notebook or on your mobile device. For example, remembering the number sequence of: 6-3-2-4-8-1-7-9 could be remembered easier if the sequence is chunked into: 63-24-81-79. So hang up the phone, find a quiet place and focus. Stay organized.

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Business Networking - How to Grow Your Online #Networking Into Real Relationships #smmanners

Stephanie LH Calahan

I make introductions to folks that are aligned with their goals right away and then just see if we like each other. Instead, each company’s marketing strategy should differ depending on specific goals and target audiences. What do you do to build relationships beyond the keyboard?  Nature takes it's course form there.

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Review – Casual.PM

Productivityist

There are keyboard shortcuts for creating new tasks and branches, for grouping sets of tasks together (a very handy feature that all Project Managers will be pleased to see). I have one project I am working on at the moment, for example, where Casual.PM If this is the goal, then it has to be said that Casual.PM

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The Solopreneur Handicap That Makes You Suck at Productivity

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

If the goal is wealth, freedom and sanity… the solopreneur life is an increasingly smart choice. Wipe last night’s cereal crumbs from your keyboard. I’m glad you asked, treasured reader, because I think in this case you really can have your cake and achieve goals too! If you can pull it off, being a solopreneur is great.