What are Super Cognitive Foods? And Other Reads To Help You Work Better (Work Management Roundup)

Today is Friday the 13th, the subject of many an old school superstition and many a horror movie. If you're stuck in the office today feeling terribly unproductive and a tad superstitious as to why, then we're here with the Work Management roundup to turn your horrible day into a day for productivity education. Read on for more inspiration!

The Superfoods That Are Actually Superfoods (Medium): Are there foods that can really help you focus on your work right now? Yes! Dave Asprey lays out some “super cognitive foods,” which include butter, coffee, vanilla, and chocolate and explains how non-inflammatory foods help you. (This is not an excuse to stock up on peanut butter M&Ms!)

Things You Can Do to Grow More Brain Cells (Lifehacker): On the subject of brain enhancement: a recent TED video by neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret explains how our brains can grow new cells through activities such as learning and running.

Spend More Time Managing Your Time (Study Hacks): Cal Newton schools us on the need for deep thinking about your commitments. You need to block off some time in order to plan out how you will tackle your tasks this week.

10 Free (and Nearly Free) Ways to Spur Business Growth (Social Media Today): Andre Bourque lists 10 strategies that startups need to use to grow quickly and corresponding tools, most of them free.

The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubbing Investors (Bloomberg): This 83-year-old billionaire Buddhist priest Kazuo Inamori built up Japanese electronics giant Kyocera, and his attitude toward investors is decidedly "un-Western". His advice: Forget investors. Instead, spend time making staff happy. In his own words: "If you want eggs, take care of the hen."

What Not to Do at a Business Lunch (Fast Company YouTube): And before you go out to eat, watch this humorous take on the business lunch and how to avoid spiraling into cringeworthy terrain..

Finally Eliminate Online Distractions & More (Work Management Roundup)

It's Friday! Time for the weekly Work Management Roundup which pulls together our favorite reads on productivity, working, and strategies to work smarter. Without further ado, here they are: How to Finally Eliminate Online Distractions: One researcher thinks Inbox Zero is baloney, because the goal should not be to just keep up with all incoming information; rather the goal is to stay focused. This article gives some excellent tips on fighting distraction. Work Remotely via Robot: At MIT's business school, one or two students telecommute via roving robots with screens showing their faces. This could be the future of remote work. Must I Really GTD?: Our favorite question on Lifehacker this week has been "Do I Really Need to Learn a Productivity Method?" The answer is, "Not necessarily." But for us regular, disorganized humans, it sure makes life easier (and more efficient) if we have one system we can trust with our to-do items. 8 Things to Do Before 8AM: A list of 8 things to do first thing in the day. This is stuff that prepares you to have a great day, including: exercise, eat 30 grams of protein, take cold showers, and get 7+ hours of sleep. 6 Triggers to Gain Immediate Trust and Sell More: Read a list of 6 psychological triggers that gain the instant trust of a potential customer. Along with each trigger is a description and examples of how you can apply it in your work today. More Work Management Must-Reads: What to Do With Feedback About Your Work (99U) 12 Surefire Ways To Master Business-Life Balance (Sarah Von Bargen) How to Get Good Business Ideas (Medium) Watching cats on the Internet is good for you (Ars Technica) 5 Great ways to make time work for you (Jim's Marketing Blog) 5 Traits That Make You Nice But Unsuccessful (Lifehack.org) Timy Alarm Clock: Andoid App To Wake You With a Game (Lifehack.org) Author Henry Miller's 11 Commandments of Writing ... or any creative work, really (Unclutterer) Follow "Startup Sparkup" on Flipboard If you enjoy this roundup, we compile links to articles on startups and startup life all week long on Flipboard. Follow our Startup Sparkup magazine to get access to more must-reads. Image Credit: Cockpit Poser by Martin Terber on Flickr

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How to Be Available Even When Out of the Office (Work Management Roundup)

It's time for the Friday Roundup once again. Today also marks 14 years since the tragedy of 9/11. We wanted to put together an especially heroic collection of links to the best articles on work management, productivity, and work. So grab your drink of choice and warm up your Wrike Chrome extension to bookmark the articles you'll want to read later on the ride home. Here they are: How-To Articles: Successful Entrepreneurs Are Never 'Out of the Office' (Entrepreneur): Entrepreneur and sales expert Grant Cardone suggests 2 rules so that you're always open to opportunity, even when you're technically offline. And no it's not a recipe for becoming a workaholic, rather, it's a plan of action for never turning away new business. To Become a Leader, Think Beyond Your Role (Harvard Business Review): Excellent read on defining your role broadly and how thinking like an owner can actually help you lead more fruitfully. Design a Pitch Deck: Lessons from a Seasoned Founder (Medium): The founder of men's fashion app Mylo explains the dos and don'ts of creating and designing a pitch deck. Bonus tip: even Slideshare says bullet points are bad. Find the Cheapest Flights With These 5 Travel Apps (DailyTekk): Forget the days of the mega-sites that promised cheap tickets but never really delivered. This list of 5 travel apps will transform how you shop for flights. Just, be warned that frequent business travel is bad for your health. Get New Content for Your Site (Audience Bloom): Yep, you constantly need new content for your company blog. Marketers know the struggle is real. But here are 7 ways to get new content for your blog from guest posts to interviews and more. And they're all free. Master Twitter Like a Boss (Medium): Buffer put together a guide for Twitter newbies which condenses and combines their best advice on this social media platform —all in one blog post. More Work Management Reads How Can I Leave at 5 P.M. Without Looking Like a Slacker? (Fast Company) The Project Management Guide for Beginners (Wrike) Digital Sabbaticals Don’t Make Sense (Cal Newport) 24 Life Changing Productivity Tools (Medium) 15 Habits That Will Change Your Life (Devious Gentlemen) The Ultimate Guide to the Perfect Meeting (Wrike) Looking for more Startup Advice? Follow our Flipboard magazine Startup Spark Up for links to articles on emerging businesses, founder advice, and best practices for entrepreneurs. Image credit: alone by Giorgio Montersino on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Changes made.

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Top 5 Things That Stress Workers Out (Work Management Roundup)

It's Friday, friends! Which means there's a week's worth of good reads waiting for you here in the weekly Work Management roundup! This week we bring you links to articles that will help you excel in the workplace. The 5 Things That Stress People Out the Most At Work (Inc.com): Stress is a common roadblock to productivity at work. But what are the top 5 causes of stress at work? This article tackles the top "what"s and "why"s, according to 1,500 survey respondents of the 2015 Work Management Survey Report. Individual Productivity? No. It's About Team Productivity (LinkedIn): With so much focus on personal productivity especially within the workplace, there's been a significant lack of talk surrounding how to make entire teams more productive. Here are 3 tips. The High Cost of Multitasking (Wrike): The problem is that when we jump from task to task, we aren’t really getting more done. Instead, we’re forcing our brains to constantly switch gears, which means we're exhausting our mental reserves and working harder to do things at a lower level of quality. 15 Things Every Newbie Needs to Know About Starting a Business (Entrepreneur): Brandon Turner shares 15 of the biggest lessons he's learned over the past decade about building and growing a business. And some of them are surprising. How to Ditch Your To-Do List (LinkedIn): Productivity author Tony Robbins explains how to-do lists focus only on what you need to get done. Checking them off doesn't necessarily mean you’re actually making any real progress. More Work Management Reads Think About This: The Mechanics of MVP Software Development (MentorMate) The Price We Pay for Sitting Too Much (Wall Street Journal) The Book I Always Recommend to First-Time Managers (Medium) Go Try This: At last! A Cheat Sheet for Writing Blog Posts That Explode Traffic (3 Simple Hacks) (Inbound.org) All The Productivity Tips You Need In 9 Infographics (Lifehack.org) 5 Unsubscribe Emails That Made Me Smile (Nudgespot Blog) Productivity Experts Share their 10 Best Tips for a Morning Routing Makeover (Fast Company) 2 Simple Email Marketing Tricks You Should Be Using (TheNextWeb) Browse The Work Management Roundup on Flipboard If you use Flipboard on your laptop or mobile, then you can also read these links via The Work Management Roundup magazine. View my Flipboard Magazine.

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