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Why does work suck? For the same reason the billable hour and timesheets suck: they are all based on an incorrect belief about work.

Firms are struggling with work/life balance, flextime, time management, etc. But all these are a joke. Flextime is an oxymoron if you still have a schedule or “core hours.” Work/life balance is not up to firms to define, but rather their team members. Time management is, as the authors say, trying to find freedom in a prison.

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What does everyone think of Pownce, a social-networking service that combines messaging with file-sharing? It's Kevin Rose's latest startup. For the time being, only those with invitations this new site.

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Pretend for a second that you're a CEO. Would you reveal your deepest, darkest secrets online? Would you confess that you're an indecisive weakling, that your colleagues are inept, that you're not really sure if you can meet payroll? Sounds crazy, right?

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Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and mo

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Reflections about the Michael Crook affair will surely be all over the web soon. People will look back in anger, although the prevailing sense of outrage may be tempered by many notes of caution — it’s not all fun, being hassled by a griefer. I probab

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Update: I did an interview with Jeff Diehl earlier this afternoon about Yahoo's Censorship of this image. Jeff is the plaintiff in the EFF case against Michael Crook and runs the site 10 Zen Monkeys. You can red the interview here.

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Whether it's a difference of two years or 20 years, chances are that you're going to be working for a younger boss one day.

As baby boomers age and younger, technology-savvy workers move up the career ladder at record speed, the generations are beginni

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>> Need help monitoring your company’s reputation? Want to know what bloggers think about your products? Andy Beal offers customized online reputation management solutions for those looking to track blogs, forums and search engine results.

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Too often, when we contemplate organic growth -- ways to increase revenues (and earnings) from internally developed new products and services -- we think about hitting a "home run."

These big ideas could take the form of a disruptive technology, such a

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All too often I get asked as a Sales mentor and one who should have all the answers, “why can’t you just teach them to close…to make more cold calls…to just work consistently every day”. It is usually followed with “we pay them enough, in fact

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