What is an Alternative to the Status Update Meeting?
Discover how to reclaim your time by replacing synchronous status update meetings with an asynchronous status loop method.
7 min
Business Productivity
9 posts
What is Gainsharing and How Does it Support Your Team
Learn how gainsharing works as a management system to improve business performance and employee engagement through data-driven incentive structures.
5 min
What is Cognitive Load?
An exploration of cognitive load theory for business managers and how mental effort impacts team productivity and learning.
4 min
Overcoming the Perfection Trap: Why Speed Beats Polish in Team Training
Discover why perfectionism leads to training delays and how managers can use iterative learning to build stronger, more accountable teams.
7 min
What is Async-First?
Discover the async-first communication philosophy and how it can help business managers reduce meeting fatigue and improve team documentation.
4 min
What is Inbox Zero?
Learn what Inbox Zero is and how this rigorous email management method helps busy managers reduce stress and improve team productivity through better communication.
3 min
What is Timeboxing and how it helps managers
A detailed look at timeboxing as a leadership tool to manage workloads, reduce stress, and improve decision-making for business owners.
4 min
The Illusion of Motion: Why Being Busy is the Most Dangerous Form of Laziness
A deep dive into the Pareto Principle for small business owners. We analyze why we gravitate toward low-value tasks and how to ruthlessly identify and execute the 20% of work that drives 80% of revenue.
Ben Schmidt
7 min
What is Zoom Fatigue?
An exploration of the psychological and physical exhaustion caused by frequent video conferencing and how managers can mitigate it.
5 min