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Millennials Fail at Productivity and Why That’s Not Necessarily Terrible

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Dawdling has many forms. Reading the news. Scrolling through old YouTube videos and laughing at the outfits. Stalking researching your new cube neighbor on Facebook. With the continuously connected lifestyle that most of us lead today, our social lives are integrated with our professional meanderings more seamlessly than they’ve ever been, and studies show that…

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Jumping the Firewall: The BYOD Imperative

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If there’s one department in every company that’s equal parts loved and hated but nevertheless always vital, it’s IT. Don’t get it twisted — the hate is more out of frustration that they won’t let us download free music than anything else. But if there’s one hangup they just might have to let go of…

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Agile Marketing Q&A: A Developer’s Perspective

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I’m an advisor for several start-up firms, and one of my favorites to work with is an amazing design and technology development shop in Portland, OR, called The Brigade. The Brigade’s latest creation turned music giant Spotify into the world’s largest jukebox on wheels: a big green bus tricked out with a crowd-controlled music app…

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Project Management: No Longer Just for Project Managers

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There was a time when one simply fell into project management. There were projects, someone needed to manage them, and boom: eventually someone did. But corporate structure did as corporate structure does and funneled the role into an official title, outfitting it with all the usual business-y tenets and a certified career path. Today that…

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Balancing Act: Why Ambiverts Succeed in the Workplace

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Ah, labels. People either avoid them entirely or identify with them wholeheartedly. I myself am a Libra (see what I did there?), and a textbook example of one: always walking the line, tenaciously looking for balance in pretty much everything. I’ll usually argue both sides of an issue even if I only agree with one…

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Project Management in 2013: Top Trends, Demands and Wishes

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Project Management is really feeling the heat this year as companies struggle to implement Agile methods, so we thought we’d take a closer look at what’s driving this pressure, the direction it’s going and what would ease the process. The Trends Earlier this year ESI International released a report on the the latest shifts and inclinations…

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Dear Marissa Mayer: It’s Not 1987 (a Case for Working Remotely)

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Certain subjects just naturally incite opinion wars. The big ones, like political preferences, or whether you’re Team Gryffindor or Team Slytherin, are better left out of polite conversation. But when it comes to doing your job effectively, where do we draw the line? Should the nature of a person’s autonomy — or lack thereof —…

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