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Stories and advice for those who manage projects, people and themselves. We tell you how to work in a team, meet deadlines and be better.

Why motivation is not always a good productivity instrument? Tips to determine your drive.

Why motivation is not always a good productivity instrument? Tips to determine your drive.

Drive VS Motivation

Madina-Mishel Novikova

Product manager, WEEEK

Weekly planning as a way to sort out the chaos and achieve goals

Weekly planning as a way to sort out the chaos and achieve goals

It is unwise to solve all tasks at the same time and work "on a whim". To properly allocate time, you need a plan. I usually do daily planning, but it's not enough for real efficiency — you'll need a plan for a week.

Alexander Mashkov

How to manage anger when colleagues and clients blow the brain

How to manage anger when colleagues and clients blow the brain

I get angry a lot. At home, on the street, but especially at work. I really don't like it, I'm worried that my negative feelings will affect my relationships with colleagues or clients. So I decided to thoroughly figure out what to do with all this.

Alexander Mashkov

How not to drown in the flow of tasks

How not to drown in the flow of tasks

When you have a lot of tasks, it's hard not to be nervous and do everything smoothly. To work for results and improve personal effectiveness, you can use various techniques. For example, Getting Things Done or GTD.

Marketing manager

How to take on a task and not screw up

How to take on a task and not screw up

If you just try to do a client task, the result may be far from what the client expected. But if you first understand the task and synchronize the vision with the client, everything will be fine. Most likely.

Alexander Mashkov

WEEEK Week #46: Tags on Android, lists on iOS and much more

WEEEK Week #46: Tags on Android, lists on iOS and much more

We continue to add new features and improve WEEEK’s performance on all devices. Here a little bit was added, there a little bit was fixed — that's the new WEEEK Week turned out.

Alexander Mashkov

4 ways to avoid burnout

4 ways to avoid burnout

We often begin to treat diseases that bother us, which do not even exist, instead of reading the body's hidden messages about fatigue. Why is burnout a seriously underestimated disease? How can we detect and avoid burnout?

Madina-Mishel Novikova

Product manager, WEEEK

WEEEK Week #45: Drag-n-drop to delete and calendar on Android

WEEEK Week #45: Drag-n-drop to delete and calendar on Android

The past weeks have not been rich in any large-scale updates, but this is the calm before the storm. And we didn't leave you without any cool changes at all.

Alexander Mashkov

Waterfall model: pros, cons, pitfalls

Waterfall model: pros, cons, pitfalls

I tell you about the concept of the cascade methodology, its principles, minuses and pros, as well as in which situations it is better to apply it.

Alexander Mashkov

5 growth mindset insights

5 growth mindset insights

How to increase productivity, and then keep it at the proper level? The very first step that you should take is understanding the growth mindset in its entirety so if you're not familiar with it — this article will help you to understand it better.

Madina-Mishel Novikova

Product manager, WEEEK

How and why to become a leader

How and why to become a leader

Not everyone becomes a leader. It's about ambition, qualities, and skills. If you're okay with the first one, I'll tell you what else you need to work on to become a leader.

Alexander Mashkov

Skills for working in a startup

Skills for working in a startup

In startups, conditions are often harsh, and in order to survive there, you need to have a certain set of skills, both hard and soft. I will briefly tell you what these skills are and why they are important for startups.

Alexander Mashkov

What is the Eisenhower matrix?

What is the Eisenhower matrix?

Knowing nothing about the Eisenhower matrix, it turns out that I intuitively adhered to the same principles that he suggests. This is really very convenient and frees up a lot of time. This is especially important on the busiest days.

Marketing manager

WEEEK Week 43: Tags and chats on the web, reminders and boards on Android, optimization on iOS

WEEEK Week 43: Tags and chats on the web, reminders and boards on Android, optimization on iOS

Unfortunately, the title does not allow you to fit all the new features and useful changes that we have made since the last WEEEK Week — there are too many of them. So let's get right to the point.

Alexander Mashkov

WEEEK Week #42: Pleasant little things on the web, offline mode on Android, reminders on iOS and much more

WEEEK Week #42: Pleasant little things on the web, offline mode on Android, reminders on iOS and much more

Over the past weeks, we have accumulated a lot of small, but pleasant updates and very small bugfixes. We tell you about everything in order.

Alexander Mashkov

9 best inspiring and motivating films

9 best inspiring and motivating films

There are many ways to motivate yourself: talk to a psychologist, read some inspiring book or watch a movie. In this article, I decided to tell you about a dozen of my favorite motivating films.

Alexander Mashkov

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