It's no secret that I'm a big fan of health and fitness: I boost my own productivity with exercise. My daily workouts help me detach from my computer, get my blood pumping and focus my energy on something positive; after I'm all finished and...
This Rypple infographic examines what motivates employees, from incentives to company culture and managerial techniques. I've written about employee disengagement before, but this infographic puts a price on an unmotivated workforce: $300 billion in lost productivity. Before focusing on productivity in your workgroup, it's essential to...
It's a simple enough question: how do you define productivity? For the Ridiculously Efficient, productivity is doing more work in less time. It's working effectively and efficiently, completing work tasks properly the first time in a time-conscious and resource-conscious fashion. To really define productivity, though, you...
Ineffective leadership costs the average business the equivalent of 7 percent of its annual sales, according to recent figures from the Ken Blanchard Companies. For a startup with $1 million in sales, that's $70,000 lost, all due to poor management. Ineffective leaders make it hard for organizations...
Atos, a French tech company, hopes to ban all internal email within the next two years. "We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working environments and also encroaching into our personal lives," said Thierry Breton, the chief executive officer of Atos. "...
The Wunderlist to-do application (Free, Mac App Store) by 6Wunderkinder is an excellent free cross-platform task management tool. It's available for Windows and Linux, and there's even a Web app if you're gun-shy about downloading a standalone app. Wunderlist enables users to share tasks...
