Entrepreneurs
5 Ways to Stay Focused in a Distracted World
If you're a prisoner up for parole, you'd better hope that your judge has recently had a break and isn't distracted.
By Syed Balkhi
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Thought Leaders
Increasing Employee Engagement Is About Un-Disengaging Your Workforce
By Dan Dowling
Entrepreneurs
Use These Strategies to Stay Focused and Avoid Distractions. 3 Things to Know Today.
Stay in the know in 60 seconds.
Entrepreneurs
Distractions Are Hurting You More Than You Realize: Here’s Why
Research shows that returning to your original focus, following a distraction, takes, on average, a full 23 minutes and 15 seconds.
Entrepreneurs
4 Ways to Break Your Phone Addiction So You Can Focus on What Really Matters
Smartphones are a strong candidate for the most alluring distraction of all time, but you can resist and win back your life.
By Nate Klemp
Tech
This Company Thinks It Can Help You Get Over Your Smartphone Addiction With Stickers
Imagine a life where you're not checking your phone constantly.
By Nina Zipkin
Entrepreneurs
Facebook’s Utopia, Our Nightmare: Open Offices Are Destroying Productivity
The open office was an exciting innovation in 1900, and people didn't like it then, either.
By John Rampton
Entrepreneurs
5 Counter-Intuitive Psychological Facts About Increasing Productivity
Daydream, but not for eight hours.
By Deji Atoyebi
Entrepreneurs
5 Smart Ways to Do More in Less Time
To beat the competition in half the hours, increase your output and your impact by working smarter.
By Blake Snow
Entrepreneurs
Teach the World to Respect Your Time
If you don't believe your time is valuable, why should anyone else?
Tech
Why Just Having Your Phone Near You Messes With Your Brain
Flipping it over or putting it on silent won't cut it, according to a study.
Entrepreneurs
A Guide to Reducing Unneeded Distractions and Time-Sucks so You Can Be More Productive
It may seem like everything is coming at you all at once, but you have more control over the influx than you realize.
Entrepreneurs
Why You Are Losing 10 IQ Points Every Time This Happens
You might even be better off smoking marijuana at work or missing a night's sleep.
Building a Business
Where Are You Gonna Work Today? The Death of the 8-Hour Desk.
Have you considered having your office receptionist do double duty as your company barista?
By Adam Felson
Entrepreneurs
5 Tips for Staying Focused on What Matters When You Work From Home
Time management becomes even more important when you're surrounded with at-home distractions.
Entrepreneurs
Having Trouble Focusing? You Could Be Facing 1 of These 7 Problems
Even with a task as simple as reading, the mind wanders 115 to 20 percent of the time. So, clean up your act.
Thought Leaders
3 Major Distractions in Your Workplace (and How to Beat Them)
Are you setting goals that are simply too ambitious? This is one of the things that can distract employees big-time.
By Andre Lavoie
Tech
Are Our Smartphones Actually Making Us Dumb?
A new study finds that our devices affect our focus, even when we aren't using them.
By Nina Zipkin
Thought Leaders
How to Love That Product You’re Developing — Realistically
Successfully executing your idea requires staying faithful to your vision -- and taming that wandering eye.
Entrepreneurs
5 Mind Hacks Silicon Valley Founders Use to Stay Focused
The people working hard on the technology that distracts know better than anybody the value of sustained concentration.
By Dan Scalco
Entrepreneurs
3 Ways Staying on the Offensive Improves Productivity
Don't surrender control of your time to email, social notifications and other reactionary noise.
By Eric Franchi
Entrepreneurs
Do You Have ‘Shiny Object’ Syndrome? What It Is and How to Beat It
Fortunately, it's not a diagnosable affliction, but it can make you take your business down the wrong path.
Entrepreneurs
5 Daily Habits That Will Increase Your Productivity Levels
Everyone wants to get more done, so try to incorporate some or all of these tips.
Entrepreneurs
Are You Constantly Distracted by Technology? Here’s What to Do
Technology has some powerful downsides to go along with its benefits, like chronic distraction in professional environments.
Thought Leaders
Navigating the 3 Great Challenges of Entrepreneurship
How you navigate in the trenches of business will determine your success.
Thought Leaders
15 Bulletproof Strategies for Achieving Your Goals
Mom used to tell me I could do anything I set my mind to. Mom was right.
By R.L. Adams
Entrepreneurs
5 Distractions That Are Productivity Poison (and How to Avoid Them)
Snapchat, junk food, office chats. Sound familiar?
By Neil Patel
Entrepreneurs
The Right Way to Interrupt Someone at Work
The art and science of successful interruptions.