20+ Unconventional Productivity Strategies

Ridiculously Efficient readers are familiar with efficiency strategies like working in spurts, leveraging Parkinson's Law and managing decision fatigue; this list of unconventional productivity strategies shares novel ideas to boost effectiveness.

Productivity-Enhancing Office Practices

• Does Your Office Need a Thinking Day?
• 5 Management Strategies to Enable Efficiency
• 3 Radical Second Life Management Strategies
• Volkswagen Germany Axes After-Hours Email Access
• ROWE Your Way to Peak Productivity
• Tech Company Atos to Ban Email Within 2 Years
• Happiily Tracks Employee Morale Anonymously

Productivity via Gamification

• The Email Game Makes Tackling Your Inbox Fun
• Gamify Work to Boost Team Productivity

Personal Productivity Strategies

• 5 Digital Notifications You Don't Need
• Shorten Your Workday With Non-Resolutions
• Email Efficiency is Relationship-Sensitive [STUDY]
• The Unstuck App is a Problem-Solving Productivity Tool
• Embrace Downtime to Preserve Productivity
• How I Use Social Media for Content Production
• How I Boost Productivity With Exercise
• 5 Ways to Boost Efficiency and Reclaim Your Weekend
• Do Anything Faster With This Ridiculously Efficient Speed Drill
• Emotional Refueling: Recharging to Unlock Work Productivity
• 5 Ways to Procrastinate Productively