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Business Leadership Article

Mark Shead — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:10:59 +0000

Glen Stansberry wrote a nice article on 10 Examples of Tremendous Business Leadership on Open Forum. It is well worth a read if you are in any type of leadership position.

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Removing Distracting Sounds

Mark Shead — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:35:09 +0000

A single interruption of only a few seconds can cost you 15 minutes of your day. When you get distracted from concentrating, it takes up to 15 minutes to get back to where you were before the distraction. Our ambient sounds help reduce the amount of noise distractions in your workplace. Don’t forget, they are still on sale at a greatly reduced rate.

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25 Hour Day

Mark Shead — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:14:00 +0000

Brett Kelly has a post on four ways to create a 25 hour day. And they don’t involve doing any weird things with lights or living in a cave.

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Digital Signatures

Mark Shead — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:51:08 +0000

Over the past few days, the most popular post on this site has been our explanation of how Digital Signatures & Encryption works. Understanding this is key for our society to get past the point of using dead dinosaurs (gasoline) to ship around dead trees (paper). Please take a few minutes to read it and pass it on. The more people that understand it, the easier it will be to move to more paperless and more efficient work processes.

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Workstations

Mark Shead — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:35:22 +0000

If a bus station is where a bus stops and a train station is where a train stops, what happens at a workstation?

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Christmas Break

Mark Shead — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:00:45 +0000

We are going to take a break here at Productivity501 for a few days, but we’ll be back on January 4th. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

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Facebook

Mark Shead — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:40:05 +0000

You can connect with Productivity501 on Facebook by becoming a fan of the Productivity501 Page. Please consider helping promote the site by becoming a fan. Thanks!

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More Infuential than David Allen?

Mark Shead — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:44:06 +0000

We Follow ranks twitter users by their influence by topic. According them, Productivit501 is more influential than David Allen when it comes to productivity. I’m questioning how they calculate “influence”, but it still feels good to see Productivity501 at the very top of a list like that.

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Leadership Traits

Mark Shead — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:30:18 +0000

If you work in a leadership position, you’ll probably appreciate this article that looks at leadership traits from the perspective of what followers desire in a leader.

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Review of DropBox Updated

Mark Shead — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:00:58 +0000

We’ve updated our review of Dropbox after using it a bit more. If you need to sync or share data, it is worth reading.

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Utah’s 4 Day Work Week

Mark Shead — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:30:50 +0000

Previously we mentioned that Utah was trying a 4 day work week to save energy. The results are in and there was very little energy savings. However, they made a lot of savings in other unexpected ways. It is still up in the air whether they will keep the program or not.

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Random Thoughts on Comments

Mark Shead — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:50:33 +0000

We have made a few changes and you can now have a picture show up next to your comments by creating a Gravatar. It is simple to do and will give you a visual presence on many websites.

We have published 386,590 words since Productivity501 was launched. Not bad, but even better is that readers have contributed 300,264 words in comments! Thank you to everyone who is helping make Productivity501 a better place by adding comments and opinions to posts.

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WikiReader – Wikipedia in your pocket

Mark Shead — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:40:36 +0000

A $99 device that lets you carry all of Wikipedia around in your pocket: WikiReader

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Dealing with Signatures and Email

Mark Shead — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:50:39 +0000

Today an insurance company needed my signature, and they sent me a TIFF of the file. I used my scanned signature, added it to the TIFF and sent it back. They said they couldn’t accept that because it came over email. Since the document they sent me had their signature, I asked if I should reject it because it came to me over email. The agents said I was “too funny”. I sent them the same TIFF via fax and they seemed happy with that. This is why we need to get everyone using true digital signatures and encryption on email.

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Discount on Deck

Mark Shead — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:32:50 +0000

Today I was getting ready to order material for a new deck. The manufacturer was already giving me about 20% off the normal price. I figured that the sales of high end decking materials might be down in this economy so I decided to ask for an additional $1,000 off. The sales person said he would call me back. Thirty minutes later I had reduced the price by $1,000 simply by asking for a discount. Not everyone will be willing (or able) to give a discount, but it doesn’t hurt to ask.

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