Most of these came as no surprise to me at all, but one of them actually did surprise me. First off, the ones I wasn’t surprised by. The most productive people don’t necessarily work longer hours. I know this from my own experience, and from what I’ve seen in others, the work tends to really…
If you watched the NFL Draft on Thursday night, you may have caught Gatorade’s commercial tribute to Peyton Manning. If you didn’t, you can see it here: As I watched it, the one thing that jumped out at me was that all of these people who had handwritten notes from Peyton that they had…
This situation tonight is something that shows the real danger of hacking. We all know what kind of havoc can be created when someone steals your personal information, but here it’s not just someone gaining access to information about this kid, it’s someone getting into the account and planting information. That’s the real danger in…
A new study has found a link between a lack of sleep and an elevated risk for illness. The new study builds on previous studies that found that a lack of sleep impacts that activation of the immune system, inflammation, carbohydrate metabolism and the hormones that regulate appetite. Now Finnish researchers at the University of…
“We’ve known for years that our minds need downtime in between focused work. But add the 24/7 stimulation of smartphone technology and, psychiatrist and author Edward M. Hallowell says, we overload the brain’s circuits, which causes smart people to under-perform at work.This frequently happens within the standard eight-hour workday. Take that information overload and stretch…
“The thought that networking would be one of the most important aspects of my career never occurred to me. It wasn’t until much later that I understood what people were saying. The problem wasn’t that I was a bad networker, it was that I was following a recipe that was just not made for my…