Lifehacker points us to an article at Wiki-How on How to Persuade People with Subconscious Techniques.

Included are things like Framing, Congruence and breaking The Touch Barrier. But you know all these things already right?

No?

Well better get reading.

Good posting at Lifehack on keeping emails short. I know quite a few people who are a little longwinded when it comes to emails. Perhaps its worth sending this link to anyone you know who has this "problem".

Where indeed!

A good little article to perhaps share with clients.



Some key points



PAY LAVISHLY Higher-than-average salaries—and tying bonuses and raises to the market, not a pool—can make stars less likely to bolt. Money is no object in hiring.



LET THEM GO Don't give B performers a middling raise. Give them a decent chunk of cash and show them the door. And don’t surprise them. The laid-off leave with their dignity.…



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My desk tends to have a lot of strange stuff on it because I don't deal with paper or file folders at all if I can help it.

However we all need help keeping our desk organized and this posting has some good tips:

12 Tips for an organized desk

Bonus related article:

Inbox Zero (how to control your email inbox)

We introduced a very simple program and gave folks a one-week grace period to get with it. On Monday mornings, our HR folks check for timesheet compliance. If someone missed a day or a few hours here or there, a friendly reminder is sent to the person to correct the oversight. However, if he misses more than a day, or it is just quite obvious he didn't bother to fill out anything, he is invited to sing, "I'm a little teapot" at our next weekly staff meeting. We record the stunning… Continue

Lifehacker has a post up asking readers about sw they use that speeds up their day most.



The comments have largely degenerated into a list of people's favorite SW (I am not sure how Firefox makes you any more productive than IE - and I am a loyal FF user)



So I thought I would throw the question out to the community and modify it somewhat: What software helps make you more productive on a… Continue

Yesterday the annual list of Canada's best places to work was published.

It includes companies as large as TD Canada Trust (a national bank with 43,000 employees) and as small as Precision BioLogic a medical manufacturer with a mere 53 employees.

You can view the whole list here.