Maura Thomas

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Distraction leaves us feeling exhausted and like we aren’t accomplishing anything despite the fact that we’re always busy. And because it becomes a habit, when we’re not being distracted by someone else, we often distract ourselves. To avoid burnout, we need to recognize and devise a plan to combat…

Distraction, not time, is our problem. Attention management is the solution.

Train your team in attention management to increase focus and productivity.

What’s taking your attention right now? Do you have kids at home? Is it the dishes piling up in the sink? Or that news notification that just popped up on your phone? Once you can pinpoint where your attention is going, you can take steps to redirect it. The author explains how the practice of atten…

Many professionals have become accustomed to sending and checking work emails at all hours of the day and night. You may not realize the effect this is having on you and even others in your life.

I recently had a discussion on managing a distributed workforce with Chase Warrington, Head of Remote at Doist, a technology company that has achieved consistent growth while being fully remote since its inception in 2007.

Especially during inflationary times, organizations must fully leverage their most important assets. According to Peter F. Drucker, these are knowledge workers and their productivity. Read this to learn a framework for skills development and the criteria for skills assessment.

Leaders must explicitly define the term “work-life balance” for their teams. Common understandings are preventing balance from being the solution it could be to workplace stress and burnout.

This cohort of workers maneuvered behind-the-scenes, without calling attention to their boundary-setting strategies. In other words, they were pioneering the art of quiet quitting.