by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
If you haven’t experienced the misery of having one (or more) of your online accounts infiltrated by hackers, consider yourself lucky. Unfortunately, my family is not in that lucky group. A few months ago, my husband and I spent an uncounted number of hours...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Guest post by Rebecca Watkins, artist. I was looking straight at the face of one of my favorite students and I couldn’t recall her name. “¡Excelente, señorita!” Once again, I successfully hid my memory issues from my students and coworkers by referring to...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
In Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (animated version), one of my favorite scenes is a quick exchange between the villain, Gaston, and his sidekick, Lefoux. Gaston: Lefoux, I’m afraid I’ve been thinking. Lefoux: A dangerous pastime! Gaston: I know. I...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
One of the central tenets of my productivity-improvement work with my clients is to, where possible, maximize what is already available to you. Often, we don’t need a complete overhaul of work processes and technology. We need to take full advantage of current...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Is paper all bad? Absolutely not. Is everyone trying to eliminate paper? Nope. So, when is it okay to use paper? Read on… Despite the predominance of projectors, laptops, iPads, and shared filing systems, there just seems to be no substitute for a stack of...
