Archive for the ‘Organization’ Category

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

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

Sending Big Files

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

Desktops: What Does Yours Say About You?

Desktops: What Does Yours Say About You?
Today, the definition of the ‘the office’ can mean wildly different things to different people.  For some, it’s about a view. For others, it’s all about the gadgets or even a representation of who they are as a person.  We found a photostream that is devoted solely to people’s...
November 17th, 2009 | Featured, Office Politics, Organization, Workplace | Read More

Inbox Zero: Myth or Fact?

Inbox Zero: Myth or Fact?
The idea sounds crazy…your inbox should be at zero most of the time. That’s zero. Nothing. For most of us, email inboxes are sort of a repository for our lives. It’s the place where you keep everything because you might need it in the future. Even the little replies that don’t...
October 28th, 2009 | Organization, Technology, Workplace | Read More

Lose the Shells: Organizing Your Inbox…or Not

Lose the Shells: Organizing Your Inbox…or Not
Organizing your Email is probably something that you’ve been meaning to do or have already done but are behind on. You know what we mean…all those emails piled up with about 17 different folders they could be filed under. Or that long inbox that dates back five years. But here a radical...
October 12th, 2009 | Featured, Organization, Workplace | Read More