5 Things That Waste Your Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC]

Design Interrupted: Design-time Versus Meeting-time Ever see sleep histograms like the one pictured below? There are levels of sleep, and the deeper you go, the better the sleep you're getting. But it takes time for you to get to the sweet spot of REM sleep and achieve quality sleep. And if the neighbor's dog barks (or, in my household, your toddler yells “mama!”) An article I read a while back caused me to reflect on how we scheduled meetings at Adaptive Path and how that might affect my colleagues' ability to achieve quality design work. Essentially, Graham describes a “manager's schedule” as hour-based and centered around switching tasks. Graham continues by saying that “there's another way of using time that's common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. I am definitely guilty of booking check-ins that work for my “manager's schedule” moreso than our teams' “maker's schedule.” Every year or so, someone seems to ask the group to articulate the purpose of a particular meeting. So I say by all means, meet!

[Etude] La couleur politique des marques IT dans l’esprit des Français Le département Nomen Research de la société Nomen vient de publier les résultats de son étude baptisée : « Droite ou gauche : quelles valeurs les Français attribuent-ils aux marques ? » En effet, si les marques s’attachent de plus en plus à porter des valeurs et donner du sens à leurs campagnes, force est de constater que la perception des Français n’est pas toujours corrélée aux valeurs communiquées par celles-ci.. Parmi les différentes sociétés étudiées, les marques IT sont, elles, majoritairement perçues à droite de la sphère politique. Apple, « pourtant connue pour son avant-gardisme », n’est ainsi pas perçue comme incarnant les valeurs de gauche. En effet, 54% du panel interrogé l’associe à une marque de droite. Les opérateurs téléphoniques sont également généralement perçus comme incarnant des valeurs de droite. L’étude on-line a été réalisée du 16 au 20 mars dernier auprès d’un échantillon représentatif de 963 Français âgés de 18 ans et plus.

How Geniuses Think 109Share Synopsis Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses. How do geniuses come up with ideas? For years, scholars and researchers have tried to study genius by giving its vital statistics, as if piles of data somehow illuminated genius. Academics also tried to measure the links between intelligence and genius. Genius is not about scoring 1600 on the SATs, mastering fourteen languages at the age of seven, finishing Mensa exercises in record time, having an extraordinarily high I.Q., or even about being smart. Most people of average intelligence, given data or some problem, can figure out the expected conventional response. Typically, we think reproductively, that is on the basis of similar problems encountered in the past. In contrast, geniuses think productively, not reproductively. How do creative geniuses generate so many alternatives and conjectures? GENIUSES LOOK AT PROBLEMS IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. GENIUSES MAKE THEIR THOUGHTS VISIBLE.

5 Productivity Hacks for the Startup CEO Ashish Rangnekar is the CEO and Co-Founder of BenchPrep, a marketplace and learning platform for exam prep and assessment courses. Follow him @ashishrangnekar. Startups are all about speed, efficiency, and maniacal focus. It’s exactly this breakneck pace and agility that enables them to beat large corporations at their own game. The startup CEO must also embody this speed and efficiency while managing exponential growth and, very often, the pains that come with it. SEE ALSO: Bad Tech Etiquette to Avoid at Work While a startup can grow from two to 100 employees and one to one million users, its CEO remains with just 24 hours a day to manage it all. 1. Before you start the day — at the office, home or on the road — jot down three important tasks that you must finish that day at any cost. 2. Continuous access to an avalanche of emails can make you feel obligated to frequently check your email. 3. 4. 5. Hacks or no hacks, managing time is a challenging task and it can wear you down quickly.

8 Hot Media Trends You Need to Know The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. CDW added humor to its video marketing campaign and it led to one million video views. In an interview last month, Neal Campbell, CDW's Chief Marketing Officer, explained the program and how it led to the Charles Barkley integrated marketing campaign. When a week's vacation can leave us behind on social media trends, early adoption becomes more about pattern recognition than bandwagon jumping. Mediaphiles dismissed Foursquare as a toy, until it suddenly owned the geo layer. Internet junkies took afternoon naps and missed Pinterest's leap to #3 in social networking. Here are eight media trends we're tracking right now. 1. When Foursquare started garnering press coverage in 2009, co-founder Dennis Crowley confessed his dream was to one day know users well enough to target smart coupons on the fly. That day has finally come. LevelUp and other mobile services are digifying the in-person coupon space as well. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Who Will You Be? Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel was a clever yet shy raconteur who created timeless work. For example; "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." It's one of my all-time favorite sayings and it's brilliant. Don't Matter. Simon Sinek says leaders find others who believe in what they believe. Seldom does someone who fails to stand for something, find others who are interested in what they have to say or offer. Be who you are, and say what you mean, or someone else may try and make that decision for you. Kneale Mann image: dr. seuss

5 Food Brands Building Social Buzz on a Budget Bob Marshall is a social media strategist for SociaLogic Marketing. SociaLogic provides social media strategy, community management, and content development for clients in the food, CPG, and automotive categories. Follow him @Bob_SociaLogic. By now, most brands are rightly viewing social media as an integral piece of their overall marketing strategy. However, many still hold the incorrect notion that injecting more money into social media is the only way to build and nurture an online fan base. In reality, there are several standout social media marketing tactics that can mobilize an enthusiastic audience while remaining cost effective, and the food industry has consistently been a leader in this department. SEE ALSO: 8 Best Practices for Food Brands on Pinterest The most successful brands are discovering three truths about social media marketing. Here are five food brands that prove a company can build social media buzz without draining the marketing budget. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Stop Working Hard to Remain Stupid Inexperience is under rated. Inexperienced people enjoy the courage of ignorance. They say, “Why not” rather than “we tried that.” Ignorance allows them to see what could be. Stupid and experienced: Benjamin Franklin said, “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” I’ve enabled my stupidity by working hard at not changing. I’m the victim of perseverance gone wrong. Right experience: Thomas Edison wisely said, “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” The wisdom of perseverance is adaptability. These days, I’m including inexperienced people in my circle of friends. Three Benefits of inexperience: Open minds.Quick to complain.Don’t know it can’t be done. Three Drawbacks of the inexperience: Talking too much.Neglecting relationships.Discounting ramifications. Six strategies for leveraging the inexperienced: Character matters more than experience. Stop working hard to remain stupid. Like this:

[Infographie] Les chiffres clefs de l’industrie numérique en France Le numérique en France c’est : 148 milliards € de CA, 1M d’emplois, 350M € levés ou encore 40M d’internautes, 110M de téléchargements de musique et plus de 100 000 sites marchands… Autant de statistiques reprises dans l’infographie suivante, réalisée par l’équipe de L’Usine Nouvelle. Objectif : chiffrer le poids de l’industrie numérique en France. Parmi les autres chiffres mis en avant : Le numérique représente 42,5% des levées de fonds2,56 milliards € de communication online37,7 milliards € de CA pour le e-commerce80M € de CA pour le secteur de l’e-santé

Why Do You Need Charisma? On some level, we’d probably all like to be more charismatic. But for leaders, enhancing one’s charisma comes with a paradox: The best way to do it isn’t by focusing on your own needs and desires. It’s by determining how you can best advance the larger needs of your company In Understanding Charisma, the first installment in this series, I discussed a definition of charisma as a set of capabilities, or personal attributes. the ability to project confidencean inner sense of purposethe capacity to engage othersskill in articulating ideas, vision, and goals While it may seem that certain people are born with these characteristics, they can also be learned, refined, and improved. There are four basic steps to becoming a more charismatic leader: 1) Decide which attributes of charisma you want to focus on, and why 2) Practice over time 3) Recognize that not all charisma is equally positive, and that leaders don’t always have to be charismatic 4) Practice over time. Who are your models of charisma?

[Etudes] Les TIC à l’école, Wifi dans le monde, Internet au travail, vidéos online… Au travail, les salariés consacrent en moyenne 1h30 par jour sur internet, Les chiffres clefs de la publicité instream en France, L’Open Graph booste le partage de vidéos sur Facebook, La place des TIC à l’école, Un quart des foyers de la planète connecté au Wifi… Retour en détails sur 5 études. Au travail, les salariés consacrent en moyenne 1h30 par journée sur Internet Selon les résultats de l’étude Olféo 2012, les salariés consacreraient sur leur lieu de travail près d’une heure et demie à surfer sur le web (89 minutes), soit une baisse de 5 minutes de temps de connexion par rapport à l’année précédente. Les connexions « personnelles » s’effectuent plus massivement à midi, 14 heures puis 17 heures. Les chiffres de la publicité instream en France StickyAdsTv, régie spécialiste de la vidéo instream en France, propose désormais une mesure mensuelle traduisant les tendances du marché de la publicité instream. L’Open Graph booste le partage de vidéos sur Facebook La place des TIC à l’école