Beware of These 7 Productivity Myths (Work Management Roundup)

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7 Productivity Beliefs You Should Ignore (Fast Company): The problem with a lot of the productivity advice you read online? It's never a one-size-fits-all solution. Here are 7 productivity myths that experts say we should avoid, and why.

How to Avoid the Most Costly Onboarding Mistakes (Entrepreneur): Matt Straz outlines four of the most expensive onboarding mistakes, including how to fix them in order to get the most from new hires.

5 Lessons Learned in Project Management for 2016 (Girl's Guide to PM): Elizabeth Harrin shares five hard-learned lessons from 2015 that should guide your projects into the coming year.

How Product Hunt Really Works (Medium): One entrepreneur shares his personal research into successfully launching on Product Hunt. According to him, it's not the number of votes your product gets, it's still who you know.

A Manager at Google Wrote the Perfect Email on Time Management (theHustle.com): An important reminder to all knowledge workers: you have to carve out deep pockets of quiet work time (aka "Make Time") on your calendar. Or else you'll be in meetings all day.

Stop Procrastination by Understanding the Underlying Emotions (Work Management Roundup)

It's Friday, which means it's time for the Friday Roundup. But even better, it's September 25th, which also happens to be National Comic Book Day! In honor of that, we present to you the latest batch of links to articles that will make you a superhero in the workplace, at home, and yes, they'll even power your project management. Up, up, and away! To Stop Procrastinating, Start By Understanding the Emotions (Wall Street Journal): Procrastination is an emotional reaction brought on by stress. If stress is your kryptonite, then time management strategies can only get you so far. You will need to conquer it by first understanding the emotional reasons for why you delay work. If you can, you'll soon become invincible. 4 Tricks to Sharpen Your Mind at Work (Wired): While these tips won't turn you into the genius Professor X from X-Men, they will allow you to tackle work with fresh energy, and give you a sharp perspective that might seem a little superhuman to your colleagues. 5 Project Management Lessons to Learn from Superheroes (Wrike): Spider Man, Green Lantern, Thor, and others superheroes all have something to teach you about project management. Learn something to boost your leadership from these famous leaders. Creative Exercises for Creative Teams (Medium): If your super creative team faces the evil menace called artist's block (it threatens to destroy all work!), then choose an idea from this list of 29 creative exercises that are sure to get the ideas flowing once again. 131 Actionable Ideas from Ten Books I Wish I Had Read Ages Ago (Medium): Here's a collection of the important action items from 10 books on productivity, habit-building, and business. It's Cliff Notes for workers who are too busy to read full books, but still want to power up their skills. Long Hours Backfire for Companies and Workers (Harvard Business Review): Research proves that working long hours harms workers and inevitably, companies. It's a story of burnout and diminishing returns. And if you keep at it too long, even superheroes can begin to wilt. More Work Management Must-Reads: Powerful Lists 26 of The Best Collaboration Apps for Your Team (Medium) 54 Seriously Cool Apps to Make Everyone’s Lives Easier (Wrike) 131 Actionable Ideas from Ten Books I Wish I Had Read Ages Ago (Medium) 100 incredible things I learned watching 70 hours of TED talks last week (A Life of Productivity) Insightful Essays Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century (FT.com) What's Worse for Your Career: Boredom or Stress? (USNews) This Graphic Explains 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decision-Making (Lifehacker) How to Test and Validate Startup Ideas (Medium) Browse The Work Management Roundup on Flipboard If you use Flipboard on your mobile device, then you can choose to read these links via The Work Management Roundup magazine. View my Flipboard Magazine. Image credit: life, cubed 08.12.09 [224] by timlewisnm on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Changes made.

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Top 5 Things That Stress Workers Out (Work Management Roundup)

It's Friday, friends! Which means there's a week's worth of good reads waiting for you here in the weekly Work Management roundup! This week we bring you links to articles that will help you excel in the workplace. The 5 Things That Stress People Out the Most At Work (Inc.com): Stress is a common roadblock to productivity at work. But what are the top 5 causes of stress at work? This article tackles the top "what"s and "why"s, according to 1,500 survey respondents of the 2015 Work Management Survey Report. Individual Productivity? No. It's About Team Productivity (LinkedIn): With so much focus on personal productivity especially within the workplace, there's been a significant lack of talk surrounding how to make entire teams more productive. Here are 3 tips. The High Cost of Multitasking (Wrike): The problem is that when we jump from task to task, we aren’t really getting more done. Instead, we’re forcing our brains to constantly switch gears, which means we're exhausting our mental reserves and working harder to do things at a lower level of quality. 15 Things Every Newbie Needs to Know About Starting a Business (Entrepreneur): Brandon Turner shares 15 of the biggest lessons he's learned over the past decade about building and growing a business. And some of them are surprising. How to Ditch Your To-Do List (LinkedIn): Productivity author Tony Robbins explains how to-do lists focus only on what you need to get done. Checking them off doesn't necessarily mean you’re actually making any real progress. More Work Management Reads Think About This: The Mechanics of MVP Software Development (MentorMate) The Price We Pay for Sitting Too Much (Wall Street Journal) The Book I Always Recommend to First-Time Managers (Medium) Go Try This: At last! A Cheat Sheet for Writing Blog Posts That Explode Traffic (3 Simple Hacks) (Inbound.org) All The Productivity Tips You Need In 9 Infographics (Lifehack.org) 5 Unsubscribe Emails That Made Me Smile (Nudgespot Blog) Productivity Experts Share their 10 Best Tips for a Morning Routing Makeover (Fast Company) 2 Simple Email Marketing Tricks You Should Be Using (TheNextWeb) Browse The Work Management Roundup on Flipboard If you use Flipboard on your laptop or mobile, then you can also read these links via The Work Management Roundup magazine. View my Flipboard Magazine.

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Crazy Work Hours: the New, Unhealthy Status Symbol (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup, where we collect and curate the latest reads from around the web regarding work, productivity, and careers. This week, we focus on burnout, insane work hours, and caffeine — the three staples of exhausted knowledge workers around the globe. Read on! How Insane Work Hours Became a Mark of American Privilege (The Week): You probably have a coworker who brags about how s/he's working 60-hour weeks. (And if not, it's probably you.) According to research though, the jobs where people are most likely to work over 45 hours a week are highly-paid professional positions in law, business management, engineering, and finance. So yeah, it's become an unhealthy status symbol. The Start-Up Marathon: How One Founder Avoids Burnout (Fox News): Andrew Filev, CEO of Wrike, shares the 3 things that carried him through those initial 80-hour work weeks without burning out: his love for the mission, a sense of responsibility for the team, and managing his own limits. All That Coffee You're Guzzling Is Useless if You're Not Getting Enough Sleep, Study Says (Mic): And in case you're using coffee to fuel your insane work hours... well its effectiveness has limits. Apparently, if you're only getting around five hours of sleep a night, caffeine stops giving you a cognitive boost by the third day. Your parents knew what they were talking about when they said, "It's past your bedtime!" 5 Strategies for Forming Team Productivity Habits (Wrike): Not happy with how your team gets stuff done? Download our free eBook that outlining five concrete strategies for building a high-performance team, one habit at a time. 5 Ways to Love Your Open-Plan Office (QuietRev): Are you feeling vulnerable and beset by distractions in your open plan office? Here are 5 strategies you can use to subtly alter your space and make it work for you — without actually barricading your desk. 4 Helpful Books For Managing Remote Workers (Forbes): We all know managing remote team members is difficult ("Guys are we meeting on Skype, Zoom, Hangouts, or Slack?"), but these 4 books give you tips, insights, and powerful tools to help you make what may seem impossible actually quite doable — and maybe even enjoyable. Surreal artist Salvador Dali understands that fear will keep you from moving forward, especially if you aim for perfection right from the get-go. Face it, you won’t achieve perfection; but with enough effort, you will get to something great. And this is sometimes all the time we have before a new project lands on our desks. #creativity #quotes #Wrike A photo posted by Wrike (@wriketeam) on Jun 16, 2016 at 10:45am PDT More Work Management Reads Creativity/Productivity: The 1 Productivity-Killing Habit You Need to Stop Doing Now (Inc) - Stop thinking the hard, important things on our to-do lists take more time than less important items Top 11 Quotes To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing (Wrike) - Sometimes all you need to get inspired are wise words from creative geniuses How to Set Up Your Workspace for Maximum Productivity (Infographic) (Wrike) - Everything from lighting to posture to music to help you produce Business/Career: This Is The Real Reason Microsoft Bought LinkedIn (Forbes) -Not for its similarity to Facebook, but more for its similarity to Medium Meet the Companies Helping Moms Continue Career Building (Uncubed) - Helping women stay in or rejoin the workforce has become big business What LinkedIn Data Reveals About Who Will Help You Get Your Next Job (Fast Company) - Weak connections are sometimes more valuable than the people know you well + other networking mistakes Tools: 15 Productivity Tools Successful People Use to Work Less (When I Work) - Good listing of some new tools, plus the tried-and-true Browse Our Magazines on Flipboard If you use Flipboard on your mobile device, then you can read all the above links on The Work Management Roundup magazine. Check out some of our other magazines as well. View my Flipboard Magazine. View my Flipboard Magazine. View my Flipboard Magazine.

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