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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever.

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data. It’s a big fuzzy topic, but I’ll give it a shot. What Is Big Data Anyway?

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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. He is the coauthor, with Buckingham, of "Reinventing Performance Management," the cover story in the April 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. He is the coauthor, with Buckingham, of "Reinventing Performance Management," the cover story in the April 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. He is the coauthor, with Buckingham, of "Reinventing Performance Management," the cover story in the April 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Work 52
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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. He is the coauthor, with Buckingham, of "Reinventing Performance Management," the cover story in the April 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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