Count me among the many avid Google Reader users who were bummed by yesterday's news that Google is shutting down the RSS reader service. If you're in the same boat, what RSS readers would you recommend I replace Reader with? On iOS, I've been using Feeddler and enjoy it, so...
For the past four years, President Obama has had to answer to 300 million people. He managed to provide a service valuable enough to see him hired on for four more. Add to that the fact that he's an active father and loving husband, and one can't help but be...
I'm a huge fan of outsourcing to improve your productivity. When done properly, delegation can crank your output up to unparalleled levels. It's especially perfect for "busy" work, research, repetitive tasks, data entry, data verification, and other basic tasks, but you can (and should) also outsource tougher tasks that don't...
Should your office institute "Work From Home" Fridays? According to this infographic by Splashtop, yes. Office employees who work from home report a 10 to 20 percent increase in productivity on the days in which they telecommute, and 36 percent of employees say they'd rather have the ability to telecommute...
Workplace loneliness can drastically reduce employee productivity, according to new research out of my alma mater. Management professor Sigal G. Barsade of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and associate business professor Hakan Ozcelik of California State University, Sacramento studied over 650 workers and found that loneliness hampered...
These proven ways to reclaim work-life balance will help you shut off the firehose of work email and after-hours phone calls once and for all. We've all encountered managers or coworkers who can't leave work at work, and it's tempting to let that behavior encroach on our own free time....
