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Year: 2021

5 steps toward workplace zen

When you strive to maintain an open, honest dialogue—while also exhibiting appropriate restraint—you come closer to achieving communicative enlightenment. Workplace zen is possible when you adhere to these five steps for improving communication in the office.

How to speed-read

Did you ever actually finish “reading” a book if you were unable to digest its main points and summarize them accordingly? Here are practical tips on how to quickly skim a book while unearthing its most essential information.

Take better care of that laptop

Since laptops are our constant companions—and extremely vulnerable to accidents, spills and countless other disasters—we have to learn how to take care of them. Eric Escobar of the “Tech Talker” podcast shares some great tips for extending the life of a laptop.

Got any banter heroes?

Banter heroes are people who can always think on their feet—maybe people you tried to emulate when you developed your own speaking style.

Correct your workflow by beating the ‘planning fallacy’

The art of resource estimation can be tricky; our planning is frequently overly optimistic. Psychologists use a term called the “planning fallacy” to explain this effect, and to explain why we usually underestimate the amount of time it will take us to complete a task. Writer Jessica Greene suggests some more concrete estimation techniques.

1-Minute Strategies: November ’21

Exhibit confidence when initiating a big conversation … Need some fingerprints to cover up your pilfering from your colleague’s cookie jar? … What was the first feature film to show a toilet being flushed? … Embrace the contronym!