Decision fatigue -- the phenomenon of making poorer decisions after long decision-making periods -- is a huge productivity pitfall. Essentially, your mental energy deteriorates after making decisions all day. Judges suffering from decision fatigue might rule against prisoners up for parole, while a shopper at the grocery checkout line might...
Happy Sunday! Why not use some of the hour we gained from the end of Daylight Savings to peruse this week's posts? * 5 Ways to Boost Email Efficiency * Discovery Channel Blog: Marissa Brassfield Shares Productivity Tips * New vs. Old Workstyles and Productivity [INFOGRAPHIC] * OneTask is an Anti-Multitasking To-Do...
The toughest yet most effective way to boost employee productivity and work efficiency is to improve self-knowledge. Forbes contributor Michele Corey said as much when she named "knowing yourself" as the single most important skill for success. Self-knowledge enables people to power out their best work possible without...
Pundits love to gripe about how the notion of a work-life balance is a fallacy, but the Ridiculously Efficient mantra is a proven roadmap to achieving it. This mantra will rock your world: work hard, play harder. Let's dive deeper. I believe firmly in the importance of working...
A study published in the October 2011 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin supports a key Ridiculously Efficient tenet: create urgency to incentivize productivity. In the study, researchers asked women to list a tempting but unhealthy snack. Half of the women were told to remember that if they...
This Gist infographic contrasts new vs. old workstyles as they prioritize productivity. Today's offices are increasingly focusing on efficiency as opposed to an overload of meetings and email; 49 percent of managers surveyed believed the workplace is suffering from information overload. Another fun statistic is that 70 percent...
