9 performances at TED, which will help you to become incredibly productive

In order to achieve the greatest productivity, It is not necessary to work around the clock seven days a week. You just need to know how to do it wisely and effectively spend their time. See a collection of nine appearances at TED and see for yourself.

1. Unexpected habits of those who think in an original way

If the fear of failure binds you and stops generating new ideas, Then immediately relax and forget about this: Adam Grant is a very inspiring theory on this subject. He is convinced that the more we have ideas, even if not very good, the more likely to find among them something truly worthy of attention. In addition, diversity and freedom of choice more would not hurt.

The most successful people are faced with failure more often than others because they are more likely to try to do something. We need to go through a lot of bad ideas, to get a few good ones.

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Adam Grant

2. How happiness can help us work better

You still naively believe that in order to be happy, you have to work? You definitely someone misinformed! All just the opposite: first, happinessAnd then work. Shawn Achor sure that the effectiveness of our work depends precisely on him.

If we become happier, our brain as if charged with happiness, that is, if you're happy, then start to work better. Happy man working on a 31% better person in a bad, or a tranquil mood of anxiety. If we can be happy, then our work will be successful because we will become harder, faster and smarter.

Shawn Achor

3. Appointment? Take a walk!

If meeting in faceless conference rooms with light glare from fluorescent lamps you rather tired, and drink coffee and discuss business issues in parallel is simply not the strength, the meeting-you walk in help. Instead wipe the pants in a regular diner or stuffy officeTry to go to the next level - take a walk! (Not in thirty-degree frost.)

Negotiate on the go. Combine business with pleasure. You'll be surprised how fresh air stimulates thinking outside the box and lets his imagination. Follow my advice, you let into your life completely new ideas.

Nilofer Merchant

4. Why we do not work on the job

Modern offices are arranged in such a way that, while there, we will expose themselves to a huge number of internally distractions. Completely pointless meeting, stupid conversations with colleagues, someone annoying distractions request endless lunch break and smoke breaks... And constant question at the end of each day, "Why am I not a damn thing I have time? ".

Fried sure to blame the office slavery. People who are free from it, work much more productive because of no distractions, and they have the ability to focus on the task at hand for a long period of time.

You are no longer working day - only working moments. As soon as you cross the threshold of the office, your day instantly begins to break up into small parts: 15 minutes here, half an hour - there has been 20 minutes - time to go to lunch, and then a little chat with colleagues. All we've been through. In the evening, you look back on your day and realize that nothing useful done. Well, yes, but on the job we were.

Jason Fried

5. The strength of holiday

New York-based design studio Sagmeister has existed for over 20 years. However, there is one unusual feature: every seven years, she goes to the annual sabbatical to freshen up their creativity and gain inspiration. At this time it is not available for any of customers and develops internal projects, which are usually not enough time.

To work is not boring, it is periodically necessary to depart from affairs. Take a sabbatical!

Stefan Sagmeister

6. How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings

Tedious meetings that last indefinitely, and make a huge amount of people unhappy - the problem is not hearsay familiar to many. David Grady has an elegant solution that will help to radically change their attitude to such meetings and suffer a little less.

Meetings are important, is not it? Cooperation - the key to success in any enterprise. A well of the meetings can yield positive results. But often such meetings are as follows: there are leading, who has no idea about how to conduct a meeting. There are members who do not have a clue as to why they are there. All this turns into a collective train wreck. And go evil.

David Grady

7. Why too many rules at work are directed against us

Companies today are so complex and intricate internal structure, it often prevents employees to work efficiently. Yves Maurier offers several methods that are designed to help people to cooperate for more effective cooperation between them.

Our organizations are wasting human intelligence. They oppose human effort. When people do not react, do not blame their thinking, mindset and personal characteristics - see the conditions in which they work. Is it in their own interest to make a choice in favor of cooperation if, helping each other, they reduce their personal performance? Why it should be interesting to interact with?

Yves Maurier

8. How to become successful? Get enough sleep!

Probably not worth it for the hundredth time to talk about the benefits of good strong sleep. The best thing you can do for your health - is to get enough sleep every day. According to Huffington, restful sleep helps us to be more productive, take more informed decisions and actively generate new ideas.

I urge you to close your eyes and discover the great ideas that are hidden within us. Discover the power of sleep!

Arianna Huffington

9. How to take a chance to disagree

Good labor relations are not always based on constant harmony with each other. Therefore, if all of a sudden you have someone there conflict on business issues, do not worry: this is completely normal situation. Heffernan believes that a healthy disagreement - the key to progress, and to the dispute, as we know, the truth is born.

By itself, the truth does not set us free until we priobretom skills, habits, talents and courage of mind to take advantage of it. Openness - this is not the end of the road. This is the beginning.

Margaret Heffernan