Are You Productive or Merely Busy? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome to the Friday Work Management Roundup where we scour the internet to gather useful articles that can help you work smarter, better, faster, stronger! So grab a mug of coffee and have your Wrike Chrome extension handy to bookmark the ones you'll want to read later.

11 Differences Between Busy vs Productive People: Lifehack has a great article on the honest differences between being busy and actually being productive. Find out which camp you fall into.

The Best Time of Day to Do Everything at Work: Have you ever asked yourself "When is the best time to send this email and get a response?" Well, wonder no more. Here is a list of suggested times to do everything at work, including when to ask for a raise, and when to start that job interview.

How to Stop Procrastinating and Boost Willpower by Using “Temptation Bundling”: Here's a useful life hack: bundle what you really want to do with something you know you should d o. For example: watch your favorite TV show or read a book you really want to get to while on the treadmill.

How Companies Make 4-Day Workweeks Feasible: Businesses who are offering 3-day weekends are seeing huge benefits. Fast Company lists six conditions to make it work.

16 Motivation Hacks for Getting to Work After a Holiday: How do you bounce back to work after a vacation (such as this weekend's July 4th celebration here in the States)? Well, it becomes a matter of motivation. You could try to trick your brain into getting into the flow via these 16 motivation hacks.

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How To Survive Being Surrounded By Geniuses (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome to the Friday Work Management Roundup, where we bring together the week's best reads on productivity and work. This week, we feature articles on how to fight back when you're too busy, unmotivated, and feeling a little, well, stupid. But not in a negative way! On the contrary, some of it will make you laugh. Read on: Must DO: How to Kick Ass Even When You Are Stupid (Medium): With a title like that it better be hilarious. And it is. Writer John Altucher talks about how he's constantly surrounded by smarter people. These are his tried-and-proven coping mechanisms for surviving — without trying to fake intelligence. How to Keep Yourself Motivated (Medium): If you ever feel unmotivated to get through your work, here are 3 tips to help you keep on keeping on. It's includes a pretty unique tip we're reading for the first time: get yourself an accountability buddy. How to Be a Great Manager vs. an Average Manager (Medium): For you comics fans, here's a webcomic illustrating 5 typical situations in which managers communicate with their people. The difference between Great and Average lies in the choice of words and the accompanying actions. How to Start a 30-Second Habit with a Lifelong Impact (STARTUPS + WANDERLUST + LIFE HACKING): Super simple. After every meeting or significant experience, take 30 seconds to write down the most important points. Read about why this matters. Must READ: Your $4 T-Shirt is Costing You Millions (Medium): One entrepreneur advises companies to spend twice as much on logo emblazoned t-shirts so they get 10 times the value. Because people really will keep wearing your company's t-shirt if it looks and feels good. The Cult Of Busy (Medium): Dina Kaplan's insightful essay on how we tend to glorify busywork, and brag that "my to-do list is longer than yours." A great reminder to step back, make time for what's important, and stop using "I'm busy" as a status symbol. The Science Behind Broken Work Cultures (Fast Company): Amidst the debris of the Amazon culture debate, this article looks at research on motives. As it turns out, the better our reasons for working, the better we perform at work. Makes sense. Take a deep dive into the 6 fundamental motives of why we do anything. I Spent a Month Replying to All of My PR Emails With "I Love You" (Hexjam): The founder of a PR agency decided to prank everyone who emailed him by professing love in his email communications. Hilarity ensues. Work Management Listicles: 8 Strategies Famous CEOs Use to Fight Ineffective Meetings (Business.com) 6 Project Management Lessons from Fantastic Four that Guarantee Project Failure (Capterra) 5 Major Ways Freelancers Will Change the Economy by 2040 (Fast Company) 10 Best Growth Hacks of All Time (Medium) 5 Fantastic Free Apps for Fighting Forgetfulness (Fast Company) 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. And if you don't use Flipboard yet, this is the perfect time to give it a try: iTunes Store | Google Play Store Image Credit: Brainy vs. Brain by JD Hancock on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Productivity 3 min read

Beware of These 7 Productivity Myths (Work Management Roundup)

It's the day before Christmas and all through the hall, Not a worker is working, they're home one and all. Yet here is our Roundup, it will never fail. Cause when you're done feasting, you'll check your email. ;) We hope you've subscribed to our blog's daily feed So you get our blog posts — "Hey, a new thing to read!" If it helps you work better, our job here is done. So Happy Holidays to everyone! 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. More Work Management Reads Go Try This: How to Make Every Piece of Content SEO Friendly (Content Marketing Institute) 17 Productivity Tools Inbound Marketers Need (Sea Monster Marketing) How To Get The First 1,000 Users For Your Startup (Roy Povarchik) Sally Hogshead on How To Be Fascinating (Entrepreneur On Fire Podcast) Think About This: Why We Unsubscribed 250K People From HubSpot's Marketing Blog & Started Sending Less Email (Hubspot) Launching a Google App the Startup Way (Medium) Working Remotely: More Efficient or More Distracting? (Smarter Office Blog) The Uberization of Work...And How Businesses Can Leverage it to Scale Faster and Smarter (Cloud Factory) Browse The Work Management Roundup on Flipboard If you use Flipboard on your mobile device, then you can check out these links via The Work Management Roundup magazine. View my Flipboard Magazine.

Productivity 5 min read

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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Are You Productive or Merely Busy? (Work Management Roundup)

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