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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, Human Resources
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: Jeff Palfini, Management, Team Management, Cookie, Team
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: Jeff Palfini
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, National Science Foundation, Telecommuting, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Jeff Palfini
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, Unity, Lee Stallard, Team Management, Management, Jeff Palfini
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: Flat Panel, Team, Monitor, University Of Utah, Monitors & Displays, Team Management, Productivity, Hardware, Components, Management, Jeff Palfini
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: Life, Professional Development, Career, Jeff Palfini
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: Job, Workplace, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jeff Palfini
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: Online Communications, Management, Social Networking, Team Management, Team, Facebook, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jeff Palfini
Blog posts 2008-02-29
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: McSweeney, Channel Management, Marketing, Jeff Palfini
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: Hardware, Desktops, New York Times Co., Adobe AIR, Adobe Systems Inc., Jeff Palfini
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: Microsoft Office, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Jeff Palfini
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: Jeff Palfini, Management, Internet, Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Tools & Techniques, Blogging, Project Management, Managerial Accounting, Content Management, Jupitermedia Corp., Mindjet, Document Management, Intranet, It Operations, It service Management
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: PDAs, Allen, GTD, Jeff Palfini, Internet, Online Communications, Hardware, Handhelds, Blogging, Wiki
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, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Office Suites, Hardware, Microsoft Office, Handhelds, Groupware, Instant Messaging, Microsoft Outlook, PDAs, Calendar, Pad
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, Jeff Palfini, Management, Team Management, Quantum Corp., California Institute Of Technology
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: Jeff Palfini, Management, Team Management, Marshall Goldsmith, Manager, Leadership, 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: TVs, Team Management, Idea, Team, Google Inc., Jeff Palfini, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Management
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: Jeff Palfini, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Management, Performance Management, Team Management, Trader, Team
Blog posts 2008-02-04
Can You Trust Your Boss's Boss?
The disconnect between front-line workers and management is one of the oldest stories in the business world. It has fueled strikes, hampered productivity and soured work environments for as long as there have been org charts. But there is more to it than pay scale and the...
Tags: Jeff Palfini, Management, Team Management, Manager, Worker, Boss
Blog posts 2008-01-30
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