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The 20-Hour Rule: Josh Kaufman’s 7 Tips for Practicing a Skill

When practicing, which is more important—quality or quantity? When should you sleep in relation to your practice time? How much practice should you fit into one day? In The First 20 Hours, skill acquisition expert Josh Kaufman outlines a step-by-step process for mastering the basics of any new skill with only 20 hours of practice. He provides several tips designed to help you get the most out of those 20 hours. Keep reading to get Kaufman’s advice on leveraging the 20-hour rule of skill acquisition.

How to Be a Good Team Leader by Empowering Employees

When learning how to be a good team leader, what should you focus on? What does it take to draw the best out of your team? To be a good team leader, you should regularly evaluate your team’s performance and encourage team members to become leaders. By learning to empower your employees, you can support them in becoming leaders and encourage them to perform better. Read on to learn how you can become a better leader.

Hustle Culture Is Toxic: Here’s Why (+ the Solution)

Why is hustle culture toxic? Is organizational growth always a good thing for business? In today’s “hustle culture,” many workers end up ruining their lives in their attempts to get ahead in their careers. They sacrifice the time and energy they should be spending on their lives outside of work. Keep reading to learn how organizations appeal to hustle culture and one solution for solving it.

How to Be More Efficient at Work: 3 Ways to Use Time Wisely

If you could get more work done in less time, how would you spend the time you free up? What if you took breaks only when you needed to and not just when you wanted to? Grace Beverley asserts that productive work leaves you with more time for self-care, and self-care boosts your productivity by energizing you. She shares three ways to improve your efficiency: use the Eisenhower Method, engage in deep work, and take a break when you truly need to. Read more to learn how to be more efficient at work with Beverley’s tips.

The 3 Effects of Unhealthy Work Environments

What are the effects of unhealthy work environments? How does incessant growth end up hurting a business? In It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson contend that many organizations perpetuate the unhealthy ideals of “hustle culture” by setting aggressive quarterly growth targets. However, these growth-oriented targets degrade employees’ quality of life. Let’s look at the three downsides of aggressive organizational growth.

Imposter Syndrome at Work: What Is It & Can You Defeat It?

What’s imposter syndrome? How does imposter syndrome prevent you from performing your best? Imposter syndrome is a mindset that makes people believe their success is undeserved, no matter how hard they worked for it. This phenomenon can cause episodes of self-doubt, shame, negative thoughts, and psychological distress. Let’s dive into the effects of imposter syndrome at work, and how you can defeat it.

Grace Beverley’s 4 Productivity & Self-Care Strategies

Are productivity and self-care mutually exclusive? How can they feed each other and even operate together? According to Grace Beverley, productivity and self-care can work together in supportive cycles. She shares four strategies that will help you be more efficient, thereby freeing up time for self-care. In turn, this energizes you to get more done. She also shows how you can engage in self-care while working. Keep reading to get these valuable strategies that can transform the way you work and live.

How to Create a Healthy Work Environment With Stability

Does your workplace support a “hustle culture?” Do you know how to create a healthy work environment? In unhealthy work environments, employees and managers work nights and weekends, practically live at the office, and attack their jobs with a frantic intensity. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson argue that this mindset isn’t necessary for an efficient business. Let’s look at how managers can encourage a work environment that isn’t built on unhealthy practices.

How to Give Employees Autonomy: 3 Tips for Managers

Why should managers give employees autonomy? Do employees need private time at work? A more relaxed workplace can be more productive than a frenzied one. As long as you give employees private time to work without being distracted, you don’t need to check in on them every minute of every workday. Let’s discuss how to give employees autonomy, according to It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

How to Develop Employees to Their Full Potential: Use Motivation

Do you want your employees to perform at their best? How can you help employees advance in their positions? It goes without saying that an organization is nothing without the people who comprise it. The task of managers has always been to give those people direction, though the old style of top-down control is no longer always effective. Let’s look at how to develop employees to their full potential.