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Productivity boost: Not letting yourself get side-tracked by email all the time ..




In today’s world, especially for those folks who work in the high tech industry, there are a lot of distractions to getting their work done. With social networking sites, especially such networks as Facebook and Twitter taking up a large amount of time of people (and with studies now calculating that office workers can spend [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 5 ..




In this series of posts (previous post about compensation disparities), I have been talking about the problems that caused our team, which had improved its productivity levels to become one of the most productive teams, to start raising objections to being pushed for the work that they were doing. So far, during the analysis that [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 4 ..




This is a series of posts (Previous post about a hard pushing manager) that I am writing about the morale issues we faced in a team that increased its productivity levels over a period of months, making it one of the most productive teams in the company. However, the issue was about whether we reached [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 3 ..




This is a series of posts that I am writing about the dynamics of a team, and how it came to be that we started getting push back from the team about pushing them too hard, which lead to a series of introspective discussions (Pushing the team too hard) about whether we had gone too [...]