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Quattro Stagioni – four pieces for colorful life

  Every one of us has the same 24 hours in a day for all their activities.  How you structure your day, the things you do and what you consider important all lead to life you live, whichever way it is. There is a 4 cycle principle that says that in order to live a...

Pomodoro technique – spicy italian recipe for creative freshness and full focus

  Clevork productivity cookbook is here with yet another recipe for your tasty day at work. This time with Pomodoro – famous Italian time management method. Portion: For one person. Category: Easy recipe. Preparation time: 15 min. Cooking time: 25 min periods followed by 5 min breaks Ingredients: Preparation – optional: 1 pencil and paper or an app for to-do lists Cooking: 1 kitchen timer...

Clevork productivity cookbook

  Clevork productivity cookbook is here to teach you the most common time management techniques. We’ve decided to go through the most famous methods and life hacks, simplify them to the greatest extent possible and give them to real people of our modern age (people too busy and tired of rubbish) for testing themselves. Each...

Creative vs. Productive: What’s the ideal work space for both? (Infographics)

  According to several researches different work space can help you to be either productive or creative (but not really both at same time). Creative tasks like writing or design require different types of thinking than solving problems or doing repetitive tasks and one mindset often blocks the second one. Our info-graphics shows how the...

Circadian Rhythm – The Biological Clock Affecting Your Performance

  All living things, from bacteria, plants, animals to humans have their own biological cycle that oscillates around a 24 hour long period. It drives biological activities like ageing, metabolism, sleeping, hormone production, brain activity or cell regeneration. This 24 hour cycle is called the Circadian cycle and the science behind it can prove very...

Psychology for Managers: Are you Type A or Type B?

    In the 1950’s there was a major psychological study which lasted 8 and half years, performed by two american cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman. They studied if there’s a correlation between how people behave in their workplace and an increased risk of coronary heart disease. From the findings they described two contrasting...

Monday “mission” of a former military helicopter pilot

  When Marek Ondrejcak heard the news that Slovak Army would like to buy some new Black Hawks he had a temptation to return to his previous profession for a while. In the past he worked as a pilot of military helicopters and this passion still holds him. Maybe he would if he already wasn’t...

5 books everyone who wants to practise Kaizen should read

  Kaizen is a philosophy of constant and continuous improvement. The word itself in Japanese means “change for the better”. Kaizen is best known as the core management principle in Japanese companies. Moreover, Kaizen as a general method suitable for any kind of improvement of standardized processes was also applied into other  human activities such...

3 tricks how to keep track of habits

  Tracking and recording (whether on paper or within an application) your daily activities or habits can help you become aware of where your time, energy and even money are being spent. It gives clear overview of what has been accomplished over a period of time and what’s your progress towards your proposed goals. It...

Get stuff done, plan your day like Rosanne

Rosanne van de Leemkolk is the social producer of a busy Dutch social media agency 3sixtyfive Hidden among a myriad of canals in Amsterdam, this team is working hard on their journey to the top, following the guidance of one woman in particular. Let’s take a look on what one woman manages to do in...