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Editor’s Note: All newly updated in July 2024…

This excellent set of spreadsheets was created by Duncan Williamson back in 2000 for Biz/Ed, which was an excellent site but is not defunct (you can still find it and the original spreadsheets on the Internet Archive). He recently got in a nostalgic mood I think and saw that I had referenced his earlier … [ Read more ]

Content: File Download, Online Resource | Author: Duncan Williamson | Source: biz/ed | Subjects: Education, Finance, Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

Content scales, your time does not. Try to do more things in the form of content.

Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Delegation, Management, Productivity / Work Tips

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else’s time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tim Ferriss | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Delegation, Management, Productivity / Work Tips

You can’t add simplicity in. You must take complexity out.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dharmesh Shah | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips, Products & Services

How CEOs spend their time has an outsized influence on performance, engagement, and company culture.

Content: Article | Authors: Jeff Hill, Xavier Mosquet | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Management, Productivity / Work Tips, Time Management

Homebrew is a VC firm that believes building a great team and culture starts with your first hire. Toward that end, they have created guides on talent and HR topics that are essential to building and retaining great teams and have open sourced them to help founders without a supportive ecosystem.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Homebrew | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

The problem with to-do lists is they lead to unrealistic optimism about how much you can accomplish because items on a to-do list are untethered from the constraint of reality: time.

Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The most substantial improvement in my ability to manage my time came from using my calendar as my to-do list (and subsequently killing my to-do list).

I used to have the habit of overcommitting myself, which became a major source of anxiety in my life because I was dropping balls left and right, and it led me to disappoint a lot of people when deadlines would … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

In this interview with podcast host Matt Abrahams, Chip Heath talks about ways that data and statistics can be used to illuminate — or obscure — our message.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Chip Heath, Matt Abrahams | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

If one of your goals is to improve your time management skills, then Wharton management professor Michael Parke can help. He’s the co-author of a study that looks at two specific types of daily planning for employees. It turns out there’s no perfect solution — the best type depends on your work environment and the kind of day that you’re having.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Parke | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips

Your personal information is out there for everyone, including advertisers, to see.

Content: Article | Author: Pranay Parab | Source: LifeHacker | Subjects: Career, Networking, Productivity / Work Tips

People often wonder how startup CEOs spend their time. Sam Corcos, the co-founder and CEO of Levels, shares a little about how he spent his time for the first two years, backed up with data. The goal? For folks out there with hopes to become a startup CEO, you can get a behind-the-scenes deep dive into how you might actually spend your time on the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The biggest illusion people share with me is “I started a business so I can have more free time.” That’s like saying you had a child so you could have more free time. That is dumb, right? It’s another reason people fail. My view is that if your business is your mission, if it’s truly something you love and live for, it’s an extension of you, it’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tony Robbins | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Career, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Like any relationship, that of the manager and their report is a two-way street. Whether you’re taking on your first direct report or you’re a seasoned leader looking to sharpen your skills, there’s plenty of advice to go around when it comes to managers. But when the focus shifts to those who are being managed, many of those concrete tactics and strategies get decidedly less … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Burned out? Can’t get it all done? The problem might be in your head.

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Unstructured meetings are a waste of time. Remember, time is your most precious resource as a manager — and wasted time harms yourself and your team.

Content: Quotation | Author: Karen Rhorer | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Productivity / Work Tips

The mindsets of great problem solvers are just as important as the methods they employ. A mindset that encourages curiosity, embraces imperfection, rewards a dragonfly-eye view of the problem, creates new data from experiments and collective intelligence, and drives action through compelling show-and-tell storytelling creates radical new possibilities under high levels of unpredictability.

Content: Article | Authors: Charles Conn, Robert McLean | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

From finding the right analogy to tapping into FOMO, learn how to sell your ideas to potential supporters.

Content: Article | Author: Nathan Furr | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Maxwell | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

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