How a 99c eBay purchase dramatically improved my working week
A couple of years ago, I bought a little piece of plastic on eBay. It's completely changed the way I work, by forcing me to have a break from technology. Here's how it all happened.
How a cultural manifesto can prevent an office smackdown
In order to work together in a team, you need to understand each other as people first. It has to go well beyond top down staff policies and values. You need to answer a very important question: How do we do what we do?
Five habits to improve your productivity this year
Over the 2015 Christmas break, I committed to five new habits. Coming up to halfway through 2016, I’ve seen huge gains. At the risk of sounding obsessive, here are five habits you should consider adopting yourself.
The key to productivity? Stop working
In the non-profit world, there's always pressure to keep on producing, and justifying more money to produce more. And yet, what we've found at OIC is that stopping work for one day can produce incredibly useful results.