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To do the best work of your life, take it down a notch.

Balance is a topic that appears frequently in all industries and across our personal and professional lives. There is this societal pressure to find balance between your work and your life, between being a professional and being a parent. When people experience burnout and other stress-related ailments, often blame is aimed at balance and the individual’s inability to find balance in their lives. I remember listening to the Christy Wright podcast and she talked about not balance, but rather a

Microsoft said a four-day workweek in its Japan offices led to a 40% jump in productivity in August.

Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.

We are used to saying yes to please others but it can be harmful not to be more assertive. And imagine what you can do with all that free time

It’s easy to feel swamped by work and succumb to stress, so some people have decided the answer lies in scheduling their day, minute by minute

Jason Fried, cofounder of Basecamp, a Web-based management tool to organize projects and teams, doesn't believe in working more than 40 hours a week.

Daniel Pink

IBM pioneered telecommuting. Now it wants people back in the office.

And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her.

A life spent dutifully responding to emails is a dull one indeed. And “wasted” time is, in fact, highly fulfilling and necessary.

Some people have an uncanny ability to get things done. They keep their nights and weekends sacred and still get more done than people who work 10 or 20 hours more per week than they do.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang noticed that he got more done on sabbatical than at work. His latest book is about the benefits of rest and shorter working days

Basecamp is a web-based project management tool, and like so many other software tools and startups before it, the creators of Basecamp made it for themselves. They just needed a decent way to manage projects and collaborations. It just happens that other people want to use it too.

Everyone gets 100 10-minute time blocks to use every day. How are you using yours?

The high cost of overwork.

Presenting a saner way to prepare for time off.

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Super Casual Friday Last week, an article in the Washington Post caught my attention. It was titled, "At some start-ups, Friday is so casual that it's not

Talk by Tim Stringer

We think we need to manage time, but we also need to manage bandwidth