5 Tips for a Better Relationship with the IT Guy

The IT guy in your office might be a perfectly likable member of the team. But in many offices, he or she is an odd, introverted person that pops up every once in a while to tell you what you’ve done wrong with your computer. The gap between IT and the rest of us has turned into a cavern as...

July 8th, 2010 | Office Politics, Technology, Workplace | Read More

6 Tips For A Great Prezi (The PPT Alternative)

The idea behind Prezi is simple: let’s build an alternative to PPT that isn’t difficult to use, looks great, and is sharable. Prezi has definitely accomplished a lot and you should give it serious consideration for your next presentation for the ‘Wow’ factor alone. You can...

June 14th, 2010 | Featured, Technology, Workplace | Read More

The Marshmallow Challenge

In this TED video, Tom Wujec explains the Marshmallow Challenge and why kindergartners perform better at it than CEOs or business school grads. Wujec focuses on it as a design process, but it really applies to any business situation. Basically, The Marshmallow Challenge gives teams some sticks of...

May 25th, 2010 | Workplace | Read More

Internal Meetings Part II: 5 Ways to Buck the Blackberry

There’s nothing more contentious than meetings. Internal meetings. We’ve all been in the gatherings where blackberry typing, pastry eating, and PowerPoints both seem to suck our time away, but in such a passive, friendly way that we don’t mind. How do we make this workplace institution better....

March 31st, 2010 | Office Politics, Technology, Workplace | Read More

Internal Meetings Part I: Present Like You’re Selling

There’s nothing more contentious than meetings. Internal meetings. We’ve all been in the gatherings where blackberry typing, pastry eating, and PowerPoints both seem to suck our time away, but in such a passive, friendly way that we don’t mind. How do we make this workplace institution...

March 24th, 2010 | Organization, Workplace | Read More

Ban Email?

So let’s ban email. But before we do, let’s talk about something else: auditing emails. I know, the phrase has a terrifying ring. No one likes anything audited and email can be highly personal, but Michael Schrage thinks that it’s a good mechanism to improve productivity. No,...

March 4th, 2010 | Featured, Technology, Workplace | Read More

Blink or Think: Two Approaches to Decision Making and Five Tips

We all know people that make decisions in extreme ways: the guy who snaps up a real estate deal in a matter of minutes or the person who takes 10 minutes to decide between fries and coleslaw. Most of us fall somewhere in between, but there are philosophies of decision making that can sway most of us...

February 19th, 2010 | Organization, Workplace | Read More

Work Environment: How Important Is It?

Remember workplaces with pool tables and beanbag chairs? Remember Pets.com and 1999? Remember thinking: wouldn’t it be great to work someplace that had a coffee bar and an foosball table? The following shows Google’s offices in Zurich: Link Scrolled down through all the pictures? Feel...

December 11th, 2009 | Featured, Workplace | Read More

7 Useful Cell Phone Tips from David Pogue

David Pogue, the technology editor for The New York Times, focuses on cell phones and offers up some very cool tips and tricks to increase productivity…and have a little fun with them. Many of these tips come from frustrations we all have: Why do we have to listen to instructions to leave a message?...

December 2nd, 2009 | Technology, Video, Workplace | Read More

Sending Big Files

Computer technology is funny. The smaller, faster, and cheaper things get, the bigger, slower, and more problematic they become. It used to be that sending a 1MB file took forever and was likely blocked by the recipient. Today 1MB is child’s play, but that 300MB PowerPoint presentation…that’s...

November 24th, 2009 | Organization, Technology, Workplace | Read More

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