Why Silent Meetings Are Effective
“Picture this: a room full of senior Square leads, gathered for an important review meeting. Everyone is looking at their computer, in complete silence, interru...
Category: Career Growth
It’s Never Too Late to Hit Your Career Peak
“A study published in Nature found that about 90 percent of people will experience a ‘hot streak’ in their career, which is that span of a few years when a pers...
How To Build The Creative Career Of Your Dreams
You don’t have to start a company to act like one. One of the best ways to build a successful creative career is to study the way startup companies operate and ...
How to Decrease Your Productivity and Improve the Quality of Your Work
“Last month, I ditched my top ten list. I kept the index card, but I limited myself to three tasks — a morning, afternoon and evening activity.”
16 Lessons About Sales
“All world-class companies must have a strong sales force. So — how do they get there?”
How to Respond to People Who Ask to Pick Your Brain
The problem with coffee date brain picking is that the advice you give (along with the time spent giving it) is lost into the ether. Helping one person at a tim...
How Warren Buffett and Steven Spielberg Launched Their Careers
“Spielberg snuck onto soundstages and sat in editing rooms, soaking up as much information as he could. Some days he’d smuggle an extra suit in his briefcase, s...
How a First-Time Author Sold 5,000 Books in One Month
“Writing and marketing a new book is just like running a business. You start with an idea and a lot of unproven assumptions and your goal is to prove those assu...
Seven Ways to Prioritize Your Work
“No matter what you spend your time doing, you can never get that time back. And any time spent continuing to work towards the wrong priority is just wasted tim...
Nine Email Productivity Tips
“The average adult checks their email 45 times. Yet nobody has claimed to have changed the world by checking email.”