Month: August 2010
What’s Your Avatar?
Nowadays, with photos on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, even individual blog comments, you’re often judged based on your avatar. That postcard-sized picture says a lot about you. Depending on the image you choose, you might come off as professional or playful, creative or cookie-cutter, silly or somber. Due to privacy concerns,Read More
Productive Kitchen Gadgets #1: The Microplane
In an earlier article, I touched upon fast cooking tips for increasing productivity in the kitchen. Kitchen gadgets have become increasingly prevalent in this day and age – and we all know how much productivity-types get into their gadgets! The first kitchen gadget I would like to feature is theRead More
Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek
Unless you are running on a different clock than the rest of us, you only have 168 hours to do what you need to do each week. Figure at least 29% of that has to be used for sleep, and another 6% just for eating. So that leaves you aboutRead More
Can You Make Ends Meet on a Single Income?
My wife and I made a conscious decision roughly 20 years ago to live on a single income. At the time, we just had our first child and we didn’t feel right leaving her at day care all day long. Also, my wife really wanted to be home with ourRead More
Are Desk Phones A Dead Technology?
The landline telephone was invented over a hundred years ago, and it has since evolved into nation-wide data networks, mobile phones and hands-free headsets, all of which can be incredible productivity tools. You can close a business deal while you cook dinner, manage your bank account on a bus, interviewRead More
Project Management Software Review: 5pm
My boyfriend’s company recently switched project management tools and my boyfriend was so happy with the new program, 5pm, that he told me all about it (yeah, we’re geeks). I quickly became very curious about the seemingly great features and so I signed up for 5pm’s 14-day free trial.
Who Is Your Mentor?
There are some things that you knew how to do from the moment you arrived on this planet. Eating – yup, sleeping – yup, and a few other related “projects”. But for everything else you do, you had to learn by watching or listening to someone else. You might haveRead More
Does Value-Based Compensation Increase Productivity?
Within the model of value-based compensation, you are rewarded strictly for results. The amount of hours spent or the degree of effort is irrelevant; you are paid only for tangible, measurable value produced, regardless of the duration or difficulty of the work. For those used to a predictable hourly wage,Read More