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Productivity Goals Should Extend to HR: In tough business climates like the one we're in now, productivity is a major company goal. But we tend to view it purely on a team or personal level. In fact, a study by the Society for Human Resource Management finds that only 20 percent of HR executives view boosting...; Tags: Jeff Palfini, HR Department, Human Resources, strategy; Blog posts 2008-03-28
Larger Teams, Fewer Managers Not For Everyone: It really grabs your attention, in these lean times, when someone tells you that your company can actually "do more with fewer managers." Boards and upper management may be enticed by the potential cost savings, but this is definitely not an idea for every, or even most, corporate teams, especially...; Tags: Team management, Jeff Palfini, team, cookie; Blog posts 2008-03-26
Will Online March Madness Topple U.S. Economy?: CNN and newspapers all over the country are issuing portents of doom, gloom and dead bandwidth as the NCAA tournament tips off today and CBS makes games available for streaming on tens of millions of workplace computers. While you try in vain to tear your direct reports away from their...; Tags: Construction, Jeff Palfini, Nerfoop, worker, window; Blog posts 2008-03-20
Telecommuting Really is Productive, Says NSF: Many managers think of telecommuting as a necessary evil for certain freelancers. But a case study conducted by The National Science Foundation and Telework Exchange free registration required suggests that having team members spend at least one day a month telecommuting could be a boon to your team's productivity. ...; Tags: Team management, Jeff Palfini, telecommuting, team, National Science Foundation; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Michael Lee Stallard: A Manifesto on Team Unity: As a team leader, one of your toughest challenges is to rally your team around a common goal, to stoke excitement and pride in their work. Everyone agrees this is a key to productivity and satisfaction, but how to grasp that grail is a discussion often mired in aspiration and...; Tags: Team management, Jeff Palfini, Michael Lee Stallard, team; Blog posts 2008-03-13

Monitor Real Estate Can Be Key to Getting More Done: Can your IT department order productivity and have it arrive a week later in a box? A study by the University of Utah, commissioned by display maker NEC, says yes. Upping your team's task productivity by as much as 52 percent, they say, is as easy as investing in larger...; Tags: Monitors & displays, Jeff Palfini, monitor, flat panel; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Zen, Lifehacker and Productivity: At this week's Etech conference in San Diego, Lifehacker's Gina Trapani told attendees that becoming more productive doesn't always mean keeping up with the latest killer app, funneling your whole being through a sieve of uber-efficiency, or even staying on task all the time. A truly productive life and career...; Tags: Jeff Palfini, Trapani, Lifehacker, Zen; Blog posts 2008-03-07
Pay Attention to Your Body Own Language: Much is made of using body language to project strength and competence in the workplace, but as any FBI profiler will tell you, nonverbal cues are an indicator of larger underlying truths that shouldn't be swept under the rug. On BNET's Useful Commute on Monday, Kinsey Consulting...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Jeff Palfini, job; Blog posts 2008-03-05
Facebook Ultimatums Push Your Team's Goals Past The Tipping Point: Group-action site The Point has just announced that they've launched an application called Ultimatums on Facebook that allows groups to create an action that's contingent upon gaining a certain level of consensus among the group. When the level of consensus is reached, the action is set in motion. ...; Tags: Team management, Jeff Palfini, Facebook, team; Blog posts 2008-02-29
How to Build and Manage Great Teams: Effective team managers understand what type of group model best suits the task, what key skills to look for in team members and which to strictly avoid and how to coax top performances from everyone starting from day one. ...; Tags: Team management, Jeff Palfini, team, job, collaboration, accounting, leader, consulting, performance; Articles 2008-01-25
Brilliant Alternatives to GTD and Stephen Covey: In the course of my productivity research (read: Web surfing), I came across a couple of extremely attractive surrogates for two of the most popular motivational texts of the last 20 years. McSweeney's 7 Habits of Highly Successful People Look Shiny's Instructional...; Tags: Jeff Palfini, McSweeney; Blog posts 2008-02-28
Adobe AIR Takes Productivity Offline: At its Engage event, held yesterday in San Francisco, Adobe announced the release of its Adobe Integrated Runtime AIR software. The software, which has been in beta since last June and is now available for free download, allows applications and the content they produce to migrate from the...; Tags: Desktops, Jeff Palfini, ShifD, Adobe Systems Inc., desktop, New York Times Co., Adobe AIR; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Why Is My Office Stifling When It Should Be Cool, and Frigid When It Should Be Warm?: If you find yourself griping about having to wear a coat in your office, you can comfort yourself with the fact that you're far from alone. A recent survey by Blumberg Capital Partners asked workers how office conditions affected their productivity and their feelings about their...; Tags: Marketing research, Jeff Palfini, Microsoft Office, survey, office environment; Blog posts 2008-02-25
The Best Bets to Build Out Your Intranet: JupiterMedia's Intranet Journal just announced its readers' choices for product of the year in five categories surrounding intra-company communication and workflow. Google prevailed in two categories, being chosen as both the year's best Semantic Tool and the best Enterprise Search Tool. Blogger beat out...; Tags: Document management, Managerial accounting, Content management, Jeff Palfini, Intranet Journal, Intranet; Blog posts 2008-02-22
GTD Proves Bigger Than David Allen: A googling of GTD Getting Things Done and the word "cult" returns 143,000 Web pages. But for all this discussion of whether GTD and its devoted following constitute a cult, the idea seems pretty counterintuitive. What immediately differentiates GTD from a cult is that there isn't much in the way of...; Tags: Jeff Palfini, GTD, Allen; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Getting Around to GTD: Two years ago, it was suggested to me that I submit the stacks and stacks of tattered yellow and white legal pads that had served as my social calendar for the better part of five years to be part of an exhibit called Instant Messaging: An exhibition of the debris...; Tags: Jeff Palfini, GTD; Blog posts 2008-02-19
Quantum Hoops: How Failure Inspires More Than Success: Not every project timeline follows the traditional Hollywood story arc. Teams don't always pull together just as the project seems to be falling apart, and the manager doesn't always figure out how to get through to his team just in time to lead them to success. That's why movies like...; Tags: Team management, Quality, Jeff Palfini, team, Quantum Hoops, California Institute of Technology, Quantum Corp.; Blog posts 2008-02-15
How to Lead By Staying Out of the Way: Leadership is often portrayed as a glorious and heroic pursuit, where the manager is a font of knowledge and runs the team with the deft touch of a quarterback running the two-minute drill. But the truth is often much less sexy and more humble than that. In a recent article,...; Tags: Team management, Leadership, Jeff Palfini, Marshall Goldsmith, team; Blog posts 2008-02-12
Google Boss Schmidt Takes Reins of Digital Brain Trust: In the past few years, prominent Googlers have taken team building to a whole new level. First it was Messieurs Brin, Page and Kordestani's involvement in the X Prize Foundation, now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken over the chairmanship of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank that hopes...; Tags: Team management, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Jeff Palfini, New America Foundation, team, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2008-02-07
Societe Generale Debacle: Losing Touch Could Mean Losing It All: More details have emerged in the stunning $7.2 billion trading loss suffered by French bank Societe Generale, incurred at the hands of a low-level trader run amok. As the Wall Street Journal reports, trader Jerome Kerviel had been making surreptitious and high risk moves for at least a year before...; Tags: Team management, Performance management, Jeff Palfini, Jerome Kerviel, trader, Societe Generale; Blog posts 2008-02-04