When I was learning to play bass, my first teacher told me, “Find your groove and stay in it.” As a musician, that meant discovering the rhythm that allowed me to lock in with the drummer so the rest ...

Do you ever have those weeks where you feel you’ve gotten nothing done? You’re staring at your screen, the same paragraph you’ve read three times still making no sense. Your mind drifts to that ...

Task masking is everywhere. Employees walking around holding laptops, typing unnecessarily loudly, making important-sounding calls to nobody. They've mastered the art of looking busy while doing ...

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It might be hard to believe that productivity can be anything but positive, but when taken to extremes, even a good thing can have drawbacks. The negative side of "always getting things done" is ...

One of the brighter spots in this economy over the last few years has been labor productivity: how much stuff we’re all making compared to how much time we’re doing it. Productivity increased 1.2% in ...