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The Most Innovative Leaders Use These 3 Mental Models to Unlock Their Best Ideas

In a world where GPS is a thumb stroke away, most people take maps for granted. It's hard to fathom that the oldest surviving maps had little to do...

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3 red flags leaders should look out for

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Your Work Ethic Is Not the Problem — Debunking Three Modern-Day Productivity Myths

In ancient Greece, philosophers like Plato and Aristotle were already grappling with the notion of work-life balance. The latter described amusement...

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We Live in a Data-Driven World — Here's a Case For Listening to Your Gut Instead

Fresh or frozen? That was the million dollar question facing restaurateur Danny Meyer following a searing New York Times review. The local rag had...

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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Collaboration – and When to Skip It Altogether

Olympic relay races are the apex of collaboration. If one person falters, it impacts the whole team. When it comes to order, there's no hard-and-fast...

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Bill Gates Says Lazy People Make the Best Employees. But Is Your Laziness Actually Masking a Deeper Issue?

Bill Gates thinks you should hire lazy people. No, seriously. He famously said, "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will...

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Research Shows Pursuing Your Hobbies Benefits Your Business, Too. Here's How to Make More Time for Them.

A few years ago, on a family vacation, my wife and I took a cooking class. I like cooking, but I'm a novice at best — and the recipe, French...

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How to Biohack Your Circadian Rhythms and Achieve Peak Mental Performance

Almost every morning, I force myself out of bed to hit the gym before work. On pitch-dark winter mornings, I can't help but feel like I'm going...

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How to Advance Your Brain's Efficiency and Automate Mundane Tasks

Early last year, two economists and two large language models chatted on a panel about the future of cognitive automation. The non-humans, ChatGPT and...

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These Age-Old Monk Practices Can Help You Lead a More Focused, Productive and Creative Life

"No matter what's been going on, no matter what the mind's been stressed with right now, no matter how the body feels, just for a moment, [let] go of...

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Why You Should Stop Surrounding Yourself With (Only) Likeminded People

One of my sons has a colossal book of bedtime stories. Each night, we try to tackle a couple of them. I'm always amazed at how the takeaways of those...

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I Biohacked My Way to Better Mood, Sleep and Job Performance — and You Can, Too. Here's How.

I dipped one toe in the water and a sharp pain shot through my system. Knowing that I'd never be able to ease my way in, I quickly slid the rest of my...

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Zoning Out During Your Commute and Other 'In-Between' Times Is Actually Making You Less Happy

I used to think of my commute as an opportunity to fully disconnect — to do anything but work. I'd listen to music or podcasts or get my daily...

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The Hidden Cost of Distractions, and How to Short-Circuit Them

On a Saturday afternoon in December, I was working on a puzzle with one of my sons. Every so often, he would get up, walk to the kitchen, open the...

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Introverts and Extroverts Both Need Solitude to Do Their Best Work. Here's Why — and How to Give it to Them.

History tends to mythologize entrepreneurial names in the tech world. We attribute to them black-and-white lifestyle characteristics, with very little...

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How to Streamline Your Digital Ecosystem and Make Workdays Easier

I vividly remember when Microsoft rolled out Windows 95. Designed to actually look like a desktop, with icons for the Recycle Bin, Briefcase, Inbox...

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A Japanese Wellness Technique Could Be the CEO's Secret to Health and Productivity

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau observed that "We can never have enough of nature," and one of the things I love about working at Jotform's San...

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These Invisible Energy-Draining Habits Are Making You — And Your Team — Less Productive

The pandemic brought about sweeping changes in the workplace. One of the most counterintuitive findings was that for many companies, productivity...

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How Mindful Eating Can Supercharge Dynamic Thinking

Entrepreneurs are ever in search of ways of reducing the number of decisions they make, in part to save brain space for the "big stuff." Some thought...

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Forget Everything You've Heard About Multitasking. Here's How to Juggle a Busy Day and Still Make Time for Meaningful Work

The morning I decided to write this article, I sat at my desk at Jotform and opened a Google document in one browser, then used another to queue up an...

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The 3 Questions Every Entrepreneur Needs to Be Able to Answer

What's your competitive edge? Leaders should continually ask what goals they want to achieve.

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Work Could Be Making You Feel Like You Have a Permanent Case of Jet Lag. Here's How to Realign Your Internal Clock.

"I love jet lag!" said no one ever. Well, that's not entirely true. Recently, a Washington Post contributor made a case for embracing jet lag, rather...

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Little Wins Are the Secret to Motivating Your Team — and Yourself

About writing, Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, once said, "You only fail if you stop." When I began my book Automate Your Busywork: Do Less,...

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You Can Train Your Brain to React to Stressful Situations Better. Here's the 3-Step Process.

Lyndon B. Johnson was known for his histrionics — his customary reaction to minor pain or illness was "frantic" and "hysterical," wrote Robert Caro...

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Silent Retreats Are Expensive — But Effective. Here's How to Recreate the Benefits of One From Anywhere.

Each summer, I take a few weeks off as CEO of Jotform, travel to my family's farm in Turkey, and do my best to truly check out. Instead of tending to...

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This Bad Work Habit Is Stealing a Shocking 72 Days of Your Time Per Year

I had an epiphany about managing my overflowing email inbox while I was on vacation, of all places. For a while, I had been religiously adhering to...

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Turn Your Work Stress Into Creative Fuel Using These 3 Expert-Backed Tips

I was gearing up for one of the most important performances of my life. It was my best friend's wedding, and I had the honor — and the anxiety —...

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Is Your Relentless Pursuit of Efficiency Actually Hurting Your Business? Here's How to Tell When You're Taking Productivity Too Far.

When I think back on my childhood in Turkey, I remember summers on the family farm, where my cousins and I would play outside for hours, inventing our...

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Malcolm Gladwell Says It Takes 10,000 Hours to Master a Skill — But That's Wrong. Here's How to Quickly Learn Something New.

In The Sports Gene, author David Epstein examines the 10,000-hour idea. Popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, the idea is that mastering anything requires,...

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The Surprising Link Between Music and Focus Could Make You More Productive Than Ever — If You Take Advantage of It

As a child, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave concerts in public venues and private dressing rooms. He performed in his family's apartment in London, where...

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Struggling With Productivity? You Just Need to Give Yourself Fewer Options.

It was time to plan our family vacation. My wife had already chosen the destination. We'd bought our plane tickets, and our kids were thrilled. All...

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What Expert Mountaineers Can Teach You About Accomplishing Your Most Daunting Tasks

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first mountaineers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Seventy years later, people travel from...

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The Science-Backed Case for Embracing Boredom in the Workplace

"The desire for desires" is how Leo Tolstoy once famously described boredom. Based on this quote, you'd think that the author of War and Peace viewed...

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There's a Scientific Reason You Can't Stop Thinking About Unfinished Tasks. Learning to Harness That Energy Will Make You More Productive.

Picture this: You're in the middle of a new project at work and everything is just flowing. You're at the top of your productivity game — coming up...

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Entrepreneurs Need Intermittent "Brain Fasts" to Stay on Top. Here's Why — and How to Implement Them.

352 times per day. That's the average frequency at which Americans check their smartphones — the equivalent of once every three minutes — and...

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4 Productivity Tips from Extreme Athletes That Will Make Your Business Stronger

I imagine that to just about everyone, running a half marathon represents a challenge, but tackling a half marathon above the Arctic Circle while...

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