For most financial advisors, no one ever sat down and told us, “Here’s how you should go about your day.” Too many of us started our careers being judged by one single metric—new revenue ...

Just as Toyota used cards to track parts moving through production, you can use sticky notes or digital tools to track your relationships' status and needs. The Japanese concept of kanban, which ...

If you feel like you struggle to actually get anything done while supposedly “multi-tasking”, you’re not alone. According to researchers, when we attempt to multi-task, we’re actually just quickly ...

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Pioneered at Toyota in the 1950s, kanban (Japanese for "sign board") systems are popping up in Silicon Valley offices to boost efficiency. "When we introduce a kanban, people start collaborating, the ...

JP Patil is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Digite, where he focuses on trying to understand how people work and how to help them get things done faster and with higher quality. There has been a ...

CHECKING emails, Facebook, switching between browser tabs — multi-tasking is actually bad for your brain. But there’s a better way. If you feel like you struggle to actually get anything done while ...