New research indicates that to suss out the most creative ideas in a brainstorm session, you're better off letting things percolate for a few minutes before writing anything down. Simone Ritter and colleagues at the Radboud University Behavioral Science Institute studied 112 university students in two separate experiments,...
Barry Glassman of Glassman Wealth Services pays for every employee to spend one day each quarter out of the office thinking up ideas to benefit the company in what's called a Thinking Day. Could such a practice benefit your office? At GWS, Thinking Days had a restorative effect...
To preserve productivity in the holiday season and beyond, you must embrace downtime. This advice might seem paradoxical (especially if you're new to the Ridiculously Efficient methodology), but Scott Belsky, author of "Making Ideas Happen," argues that downtime fosters creativity and enables our best ideas to...
Happy Monday! I've got an array of excellent productivity and motivation articles to kick off the workweek. * What separates effective individuals from busy individuals? Kentin Waits discusses 6 Habits of Highly Productive People. My favorite bit is this: "In the end, productivity is one part old-fashioned discipline...
