innovation
How Kiva is ending poverty through personal connection
In rural Zimbabwe, Lindiwe walks a worn, dirt path to her store. It’s a path she has walked all her life, growing up in her small town. She knows every twist and turn, the feel of the soft dirt under her feet. The path eventually takes her to the center of her village, a small […]
This is why your to-do list is going nowhere
Have you browsed the latest productivity tools in the app store lately? There is certainly no shortage of to-do list and task manager apps available, each one promising you a simpler way of organizing all the things you want to accomplish.
Building a winning team with agile performance management
This is a guest post written by Anand Inamdar, Product Owner at Amoeboids Technologies. The team at Amoeboids has developed & supports Jira add-ons UpRaise for Employee Success and Automated Release Notes. In today’s world of rapid innovation and powerful technology advances, it’s easier than ever to start up a company. But, building a winning team […]
Why Slacking off can speed up your productivity
Being busy is very often a waste of time. Slacking off can actually get better results. Just ask nature.
8 SaaS tools that help your company scale as a team
As a fast-growing team of over 100 distributed employees supporting 18 million users worldwide, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to scale successfully as a company. And we focus a lot on great collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and a collective energy to achieve something that’s bigger than ourselves.
The beginner’s guide to scrum and agile project management
What can help you build a car, save your marriage, code software, write a book, or even renovate a house?
The minimalist’s guide to productivity
I’ve been on a journey to adopt a minimalist lifestyle for years. I’ve taken on a minimalist wardrobe, thrown out all the junk in my house, even downsized to a smaller flat with less storage and way more floor space.
How to add bots to your workflows the proper (read: productive) way
If you use digital applications to communicate or do any part of your work, you’ve probably heard about bots. These task-based automated programs may be poised to become the next big thing in the software economy – and it helps that they’re useful to individuals and companies alike.
Love working smarter? These are the 12 productivity bots you’re looking for
“I hate tools that help me work more efficiently and communicate more clearly,” said no one ever. Enter: Your bot minions.
Why you get more done when you gamify your life
As a kid playing games, you didn’t stay up for hours because of the music, the graphics, or the storyline. Rather, it was because the games were so difficult that any kind of achievement was a massive deal for your 8-year-old self.