Work Life & Environment

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Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014 Drake Baer	The Multitasker You wish your phone's browser could handle more than eight windows. Perhaps you're using that phone right now.
Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014 Drake Baer	The Mono-tasker You sneer at multitabs, loathe push notifications, and grab each task with both hands.
Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014	The Procrastinator Instead of making a decision right away, you wait for more info to come in. You are intimate with deadlines.
Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014 Drake Baer	The Connector You're constantly meeting new people -- and these relationships are the foundation of your productivity.
Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014 Drake Baer	The Lone Wolf You work solo, loading complex problems into your head and working them out from there.
Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014 Drake Baer	The Firefighter When you're at work, you're on, putting out one blaze after another, without distraction or delay.
Fast Company Dec 2013/Jan 2014 Robert Safian	How to Make Your Own Luck There is so much information available, we can get sucked into the morass. It is more and more difficult to know which activity is meaningful. Working hard is one thing; working smart is something else.
AskMen.com Joel Balsam	How Would You Rank Your Coworkers? According to AllThingsD, Yahoo is firing employees based on performance assessments from their colleagues. Back in the 1980s, General Electric CEO Jack Welch implemented bell-curve rankings to weed out the underachievers.
AskMen.com November 5, 2013 Ian Lang	Are You Getting Lost In The Shuffle At Your Job? The differences between working for a large company and a small one can be staggering -- and warrant consideration.
HBS Working Knowledge October 23, 2013 Michael Blanding	Overcoming Nervous Nelly In situations from business negotiations to karaoke, Alison Wood Brooks explores the harmful effects of anxiety on performance -- and how to combat them in your office life.
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