Pimp Your Work - Improving Your Work Day Efficiency

July 7th, 2008

Gas prices affect employee productivity

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The price of crude oil did get lower this week, but gas prices are still over $4.00/gallon in most areas in the US.
The thing is, rising gas prices lead to stress, and stress leads to worry, and worry leads people to become unproductive - according to Yoda.  (Well, not really, but I hope you get […]

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June 21st, 2008

Cool Tools: Check Off

For those who love having checklists for almost anything, Second Gear brings you Check Off.
Check Off is a Mac OS X To-Do checklist that is both easy and intuitive to use. To get it up and running, you just need to download the installer and run the setup file. After that, Check Off is easily […]

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June 13th, 2008

What is a productive worker?

This slideshow I found defines what a productive worker is in an Enterprise 2.0 setting. It actually expresses many of the other ideas we’ve discussed here at Pimp Your Work, about how productivity is more about the outcome/results you deliver, rather than the time you log.

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June 12th, 2008

Batch Processing Can Make You More Productive

Darren Rowse recently wrote about batch processing over at Problogger, and other bloggers have done the same.  This got me thinking about an overlooked way to dealing with an overwhelming amount of tasks each day.
So what is batch processing? 
Although initially used as a computer term, batch processing is also used to describe a productive way […]

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June 4th, 2008

Overproductive

 Image by Celine Roque from Blue Rabbit Media
This is the first of a series of comics for Pimp Your Work.
While I review several productivity tools and discuss several methods here at Pimp Your Work, I don’t mean that you use them all.  Pick the best tools that suit your working style, and keep the […]

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May 31st, 2008

April and May Roundup for Pimp Your Work

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Gee, I forgot to roundup the “better” (read: not as terrible as usual) posts from Pimp Your Work last April.  So this month we’re gonna roundup both the April and May posts.

 Dealing with humor in the workplace
What motivates you
How to be a lean, mean instant messaging machine
How to use Twitter productively
Disconnecting from the Internet might […]

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May 28th, 2008

Pimping Bookmarks: More Productivity and Workplace Tips

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First off, I’d like to mention that I edited the ‘About Pimp Your Work‘ page. Hopefully, the new page is a better reflection of what this blog is all about. Please let me know what you think of the edited page, and I’ll consider your comments/ suggestions. After all, this blog […]

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May 15th, 2008

How I Got to the 9-Hour Workweek (Part 2)

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In the previous installment of this series, I talked about how I defined work and modified my e-mail habits as my first two-steps to a 9-hour workweek.
Step 3: I applied the 80-20 rule.
I’ve talked about the 80-20 rule (or Pareto Principle) in the past, so I won’t define it here. I’ll […]

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May 13th, 2008

How I Got to the 9-Hour Workweek (Part 1)

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“The 4 Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss has been all over the blogosphere and mainstream media for the past year. The title sounds like a scam or a gimmick, and you half-expect that the official website will be a lengthy one-page sales letter that starts with “Dear Friend”. Thankfully, the reality is different: […]

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