Shunning ostentatious frills and bloated executive pay packets are some ways a CEO can garner the respect of a company’s employees.
His name tag plainly says “Jim,” he answers his own phone, and his plain office at the company headquarters doesn’t even have walls. While other CEO’s are spending tens of thousands of dollars just [...]

14 writers offer some extensive insights into their work and the writer’s life. Here are some of the stand-out points:
Elmore Leonard:
Keep your exclamation points ­under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. If you have the knack of playing with exclaimers the way Tom Wolfe does, you [...]

In short the way to complete a crucial task is to convince yourself it is not as important as something else, therefore making it easier to tackle.
All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does [...]

I must be one of the few people I know not to own a smartphone of some sort, whether it be an iPhone, Blackberry, or an Android.
The phone I’m using at the moment won’t last forever though – increasingly erratic battery performance is just one indication it’s on the way out – and I’ve been [...]

25 artists and creatives talk about how they deal with creative block.

Apparently those who wake up early, “larks”, are more proactive than the “night owls” who prefer to work into the small hours.
A possible reason for a lark’s perceived higher productivity is down to the greater access they have to the people and services they require for their work, something a night owl may not [...]

An article at Hicksdesign about the amount of work, or more like lack of work, most of us complete in a typical eight hour day, started me thinking about what constitutes actual, or real, productivity.
We might spent eight hours a day working, but what do we actually achieve in real terms? Not so much [...]

A tip for boosting your writing output may also be a solution for fending off writer’s block, by never allowing it to set in.
A friend who just finished writing a(n excellent) book in a short period of time says you have to ignore your brain when it tells you it’s done for the [...]

If you are that type that actually derives some benefit from power napping (I don’t, I feel groggy for hours after), and you also enjoy coffee, Caffeine Naps may be worth considering:
Caffeine takes around 20 minutes to have an affect on your body and absorption will be complete in around 45 minutes. This means, [...]

Rory Marinich’s hedonstic variation of the Getting Things Done system of time management and productivity.
When you focus on producing, you ignore the importance of everything but production. That’s just as unhealthy as not producing. Sure, it might get you doing some of the menial bullshit you’d rather avoid, but if you’re filing important creative [...]