Do accolades like rewards and prizes improve our productivity or spoil it? Research on winners of the most coveted award in the mathematics field indicates it could be the latter. George Borjas and Kirk Doran of Harvard and Notre Dame, respectively, studied the rate of published works in the years...
I enthusiastically recommend outsourcing or delegating tasks you're not passionate about doing yourself -- the pain-in-the-butt tasks that are necessary yet don't fall into your areas of interest (or skill) -- and I have to share a pleasant case study I just experienced firsthand with Freelancer....
I'd be honored if you could take a couple minutes out of your day and answer this quick poll on barriers to productivity. It's just four questions and will be immensely helpful for some research I'm conducting. Here it is -- thank you in...
Working late into the night is a normal occurrence for the modern-day professional, who just doesn’t seem to have enough hours in the day to get it all done. If this describes your life, you are probably doing it wrong. Cal Newport, an assistant professor at Georgetown University took...
Your next productivity inspiration might come from Charlie Sheen's bosses, the producers of FX comedy "Anger Management." The show was given a 10/90 deal -- if the first 10 episodes of the series received high ratings, the network would ink a deal for another 90...
Increase your productivity and stay on top of your tasks with the help of these five apps for Android. Each of these apps works great for managing to-do lists and making sure you never forget a task. 1. Remember the Milk Remember the Milk is an online task management tool...
