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Agenda for Android Gives You a Clean, Minimalist View of All of Your...
Android: Google's built-in calendar app is great, but Agenda combines all of your calendars into a single, easy-to-scan view of all your day's appointments. Simple swipe gestures whisk you from your...
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How to Not Suck at Meetings
Ok, cool. Meetings. They seem simple enough, right? I mean, you just book the thing, show up at a coffee shop, ask some smart questions, and then on to the next one. Boom. Am I winning, or am I...
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"Not Adding Value is The Same As Taking it Away"
It's easy to assume that by merely showing up and doing what's required of you isn't detrimental to those you work with. Writer and entrepreneur Seth Godin has a different theory. More »
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Improve Your Focus by Fidgeting
We've probably all been there before: Stuck in a meeting bored to tears or our attention wandering during a phone call. Whatever the reason for your trouble staying focused, part of the problem may be...
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How Long Should Meetings Last?
Meetings don't have to be terrible things, as long as whoever calls them is willing to organize them well. But how long should meetings typically run? More »
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Sunrise for iPhone May Be the Last Calendar App You Ever Use
Sunrise for iPhone is more than just a calendar app, it's puts important information about your day front and center, including appointments you have to make, friends' birthdays and events, the day's...
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Limit Major Decisions to Three People to Avoid Wasting Time
Collaboration is great, but sometimes collaboration can devolve into useless debate that doesn't get you anywhere. The Globe and Mail recommend limiting those big decisions to three people or less....
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Disagree Constructively at Work by Offering Solutions, Not Just Dissent
Disagreeing with colleagues or managers at work can be a challenge, especially if you want your career to survive the conversation. Still, no one gets anywhere by agreeing with everything everyone...
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Remember This Simple Equation To Run Great Meetings
Nobody likes meetings, so if you schedule one, you'd better get something out of it. A simple formula can help ensure that a meeting won't be a waste of everyone's time. More »
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Repeat the Question to Buy Yourself More Time to Come Up with a Brilliant...
We've all been in that position at work where we're suddenly put on the spot and asked to come up with a brilliant off-the-cuff solution to a problem. That's a horrible spot to be in because if you...
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If You’re Not Making a Decision, Sharing Information, or Brainstorming, Don’t...
Meetings can be a colossal waste of time, but in some rare cases they're actually necessary to get something done. The key is to make sure that before you schedule or propose a meeting that you're...
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What If You Could Truly Be Yourself at Work?
For two years now, we have been holding regular "community" meetings at our office to give team members an opportunity to check in about how they're doing, not just professionally but also personally....
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Sit In the Front Row and Get More Out of Your Meetings and Conferences
The next time you're in a class, lecture, meeting, or similar event, sit in the front row. As Spindows founder Clay Hebert points out, it can dramatically improve your experience. More »
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Improve Your Health and Meeting Frustration with Walking Meetings
You have heard and read by now about the rather terrible impact of sitting all day. You also know that meetings involve lots of sitting, and are often terrible. Kill two birds with one stone, and...
View ArticleUberConference Keeps Track of Your Crowded Conference Calls (And We've Got...
Conference calls are a pain, and it's a bit crazy that in the year 2012 we're still trying to keep track of who said what, let alone remember who everyone is. UberConference is a new service that aims...
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Decline Meetings Whenever Possible to Help Maintain a Work-Life Balance
Maintaining a good work-life balance is often hard enough on its own, but Harvard Business Review suggests that extraneous meetings are one of the reasons many people get kicked into the 60 work week....
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Stop Working All Those Long Hours
"He's one of my best employees. He always puts in ten-hour days, sometimes much more." Is this how your boss judges you and your colleagues? Probably yes, according to a 2010 study published in Human...
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Meetings.io Adds Screen Sharing and File Trading to Easy Video Meetings
Meetings.io, the super-easy, no-sign-in-required video meeting site, has added screen sharing and file sharing to their video chat service. Given those were the only two features we thought were...
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How to Take a Conference Call Without Driving Everyone Else Crazy
You would think that with so many video conferences and conference calls happening in offices around the world every day, we'd all have this down pat by now. Oh no, we don't: conference calls are some...
View ArticleSchedule “In Days” and “Out Days” to Get Your Calendar Under Control
If your schedule is getting away from you, consider scheduling "in days" where you're in the office all the time and focus on your to-dos, and "out days," where you run errands, meet clients, or...
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