Tag Archive for: productivity

Asynchronous Work in 2023

I’ve been following Anne Helen Petersen for years, first on Facebook, then on Instagram, and now I’m a paid subscriber to her Culture Study newsletter. The prompts she poses to her readers about culture and work, and her responses to those…

The Many Faces of Management

“I’ll manage” is a common phrase nowadays; it means an unanticipated or ‘less than ideal’ scenario will be handled with limited resources (things, people, time, etc.). While this response often carries a negative connotation, it prompts…

COVID has changed us, but how?

Hopefully, safe, effective vaccines will help us put the worst of COVID-19 in the rearview mirror. However, it has changed us, and I will be curious to see which of those changes prove to be long-lasting and most impactful. Working from…

What Do You Budget Time for?

As more people have adjusted to working from home this year, more and more of us are analyzing our personal work-related habits in the pursuit of increased productivity and improved performance. Everyone has a different working style and…

What’s Affecting My Productivity?

As I’ve made the transition from being a full-time student to working full-time, the biggest challenge has been reconciling the times I am most productive with normal business hours. When I was in school, I could set my own schedule for…
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Staying Productive While on The Road

At first, it seems easy to complete 40 hours of work in a week while simultaneously traveling for meetings or sales. It would appear from a superficial level that hours of airplane travel, blocks of time waiting for transit, shuttle, taxi time…