training
Should you turn your video cam on in online training?
The pandemic has turned everything into a video call — but could we be making smarter decisions about when to turn on the camera?
focus
Can you monotask?
The New York Times: [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/fashion/monotasking-drop-everything-and-read-this-story.html] > Not the same as mindfulness, which focuses on emotional awareness, monotasking is a 21st-century term for what your high school English teacher probably just called “paying attention.” This is one of the reasons I work
offices
Open Plan Offices: only a manager could love them
Why really bad decisions get made about open plan offices [https://medium.com/@rands/your-best-work-5a72a1ad408d#.dyc65n5o3] It’s because the people making the decision don’t have to use the space: > Let’s start with the fact that the folks often making the space decision are managers who already
creativity
Escaping the tyranny of the team
Team work can be creative and fulfilling. But some tasks are better done alone. Can we design offices to allow that?
flexible working
Home or Office: pick your discipline
Working from home, versus corporate office life [https://opendor.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/working-from-home/]: > Discipline. Everyone talks about how much discipline you need to work at home. But how much discipline does it take to go to the same strange city office every day, for all the hours
Blogging
Morning nostalgia
I am having a deeply nostalgic day right now. Not only am I provisioning a new blog – just as I used to back in my days as RBI’s blogmeister – but today is a day of note, as this tweet suggests: > 12 years ago today… http://t.co/6pEPQB5AIB—
Slaying the e-mail monster
I’ve been staring at an unusual sight on and off over the last 18 hours or so: Yes, I’ve hit inbox zero. And I need to keep as close to this as I can. Here’s why: My working life is about as complex as it has ever
coworking
Orking the Cow
As a sort of addendum to yesterday’s post, I am seriously considering looking at joining a co-working space or renting a small office, so I can potentially put some distance between myself and my work at the end of the day. Working largely from a home office does create
corporate culture
Stop working so damn hard
You shouldn’t put in so many hours working [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki]. Why? > The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both productivity and quality. Among industrial workers,
consultancy
Next steps, two years on
Why you shouldn’t be a freelancer [http://robertnealan.com/stop-freelancing/], you should be a company: > Remember, you’re not a no-strings-attached temporary employee, you’re an expert in your field whom clients come to because they want the best product possible and can trust to guide them in
professionalism
Quote of the Day: Professionalism
Euan Semple [http://euansemple.com/theobvious/2013/9/2/linkedin-professionalism-or-keeping-up-appearances] : > The full impact of the social web will only be apparent when being “professional” – in the sense of restrained, impersonal, guarded and “businesslike” as distinct from being bloody good at your job – is finally seen as unproductive, dysfunctional, often
lifestyles
The problem with self-employment
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/garden-leaves.jpg] I’ve just had my eyes opened by, of all things, The Onion [http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-on-cusp-of-having-fun-remembers-every-single-o,32632/] : > While cracking open his second beer as he chatted with friends over a relaxed outdoor meal,