Category: Effectivity

5 books for business people that are actually not about business at all

To be successful in business, one needs to have many skills. You should be able to understand a little bit of accounting, have a basic grasp of marketing, be a specialist in the area you are doing your business in and understand basic law principles. But wait, there is, of course, more. There are other...

Get under the Clevork skin

    A bit of a different post today. Actually a lot different. We are not gonna be sharing a productivity tip or a tool that will help you become more effective today. We are sharing some personal info about us, people behind Clevork, people who developed it and are making sure everything from the...

….And the winner is

    About 3 weeks or so ago, we came up with an idea of a competition. The conditions were simple. If we get 500 likes on our FB Fan Page Monday by Clevork we will randomly pick a winner out of all the people who like our page and the lucky winner will receive the Clevork...

Throw your to-do list away

Maybe you thought that avoiding tasks is a typical characteristic of unsuccessful people. But as Tim Ferriss and many others alongside him say, the opposite is correct. Rich and successful people are champions at putting things off till later. The difference is that the majority of people spend most of their time doing the 80%...

The secret of success

One of the biggest mistakes people repeatedly make to weaken their self-confidence and effectiveness is, that they keep waiting until they figure out all the details for a task or an activity they wish to go ahead with. Successful people differ from the rest of us by acting first rather than waiting until they are...

Create an exciting future for yourself

In 1930, a well-known research was done, the aim of which was to find out, what factors have an effect on increasing efficiency at work. The team of sociologists lead by Elton May, a professor from Harvard went into factories to find out what effect an increased lighting above the production lines has on the...

Unbelievably simple method for managers: How to become a leader in every situation.

Dr. Robert Cialdinis in his book Influence Science and Practice describes a test that really happened in the streets of Chicago. The test consisted of a brand new car being left overnight in a shabby Chicago neighborhood. But when the research authors came back the next day to pick the car up, the car was...

3 simple steps to gaining mental well-being

  Whether your goal is  success at work, in relationships or other parts of your life, mental well-being is the critical factor needed to turn desire into reality. In 1996, the BBC had a program where psychologist Robert Holden PhD. chose 3 people who suffered clinical depression and in a short time tried to improve their mental well-being....

5 biggest authorities in the time management and personal development field

  This is valid for every activity: If you wanna do something right, learn only from the best. If you wanted to write a bestseller on any given topic, the rules to go by would go something like this: Find similar authors who have already managed what you are trying to manage right now. Look...

7 lessons from highly successful people – PART II

You know some principles already. Now go ahead and read the second part of our article about the rich and successful.     5. Learn to listen to people “If I evaluate my life so far I find out how important contacts are, how much more valuable than all of my inventions and machines. People...