According to this infographic on digital stress and your brain, multi-tasking could be slowly killing you. “Not me,” you say with full confidence, “I’m a great multi-tasker.” No, you’re not. We humans suck at multitasking, but we mistakenly think we’re quite good at it. Take for example, the graphic called out in The Multitasking Lifestyle. You…
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Is Office Politics Decreasing Your Productivity at Work?
According to an infographic offered up by Tempo blog, 47% of people say office politics is a work-related distraction that takes time away from their productivity. Interesting. Nearly half of office workers see office politics as a “distraction” that keeps them from being optimally productive? How very convenient. Someone didn’t get a…
3 Tips on Building a Culture of Peer-to-Peer Recognition at Your Company
A Guest Post by Ginni Chen I read an incredible statistic the other day that summarizes the epidemic of worker disenchantment: 53% of people at work are dissatisfied with the amount of recognition they get on the job. A recent study by Towers Watson concluded that whether employees feel their efforts are appreciated is the number one determining…
Is Your Leadership Full of Bull?
I had lunch with a friend today who told me about a book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots. It’s been around awhile, but it was a new title to me. The key aim of the book is to help people speak more clearly and persuasively. That makes sense, based on the title, right?…
5 Step Plan to Kick-Start Your Work Week
Dreading Mondays seems to be a favorite meme of office workers because for many people Monday symbolizes the end of the weekend (“fun”) and the beginning of work (“not so fun”). Our “down time” is enjoyable but most of us need to earn a living too. So when it’s time to get back to work, we need to…