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Manager Tools

Manager Tools is focused on helping you become a more effective manager and leader.

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If you’re tired of a lot of management “theory” and would rather learn specific actions you can take TODAY, we think you’ll enjoy the Manager Tools podcast.

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Oil Paintings (in Dafen of China)

Dafen Art supplys oil painting to the worldwide in the past years, It locateed in Shen Zhen of China.

All products of Dafen Art are absolutely painted by hand on canvas or board by Chinese professional artists

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OSH Answers: Basic Information

Ergonomics of working in a standing position.

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Startup Tools | Steve Blank

Awesome reference guide with tools to help start a new business.

Beeminder

Beeminder tracks your progress toward your goals

Anything you can put a periodic number on works (…)

If you go off track, you pledge money to stay on the road the next time, and if you go off track, we charge you.

RescueTime Product Tour (Mac/PC)

… is a web-based time management and analytics tool for knowledge workers who want to be more efficient and productive.

… sits in the background and measures which application, web site or (optionally) document is actively being used.

TagTime: Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets | Messy Matters

… we hit on a solution: randomness. The idea is to randomly sample yourself. At unpredictable times, a box pops up and asks, what are you doing right at this moment? You answer with tags each time it pings you. (…) It doesn’t work for fine-grained tracking but over the course of weeks, it gives you a good picture of where your time goes.

Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - Quora

“Wow, there are a million little twists and turns on this coast. A 40 mile day will barely get us past Half Moon Bay. This trip is at least 500, not 400 miles…”

d

You need to write documentation. d makes it easy:

  • Put a bunch of Markdown files in a directory.
  • Run d.
  • Get on with your life.

No fiddling around with configuration files, themes, version numbers, obtuse markup, or multiple output formats.

Format Text as a Table | Senseful Solutions

Here’s a simple tool that let’s you format text as a table. Simply enter in tab-delimited text (e.g. by copying from Excel), then press “Create Table”.

MBWA — Management By Walking Around

(via Ricardo Liberato)


How Steve Jobs earned his MBWA degree (Management By Walking Around) | SmartPlanet

Jobs had mastered the art of MBWA, or Management By Walking Around.  It’s a relatively simple — but way underused — best practice that keeps managers in touch with the people paying the bills or making things happen around the company.

Three-step dance

The structure of a Kottke post is totally elemental:
  • Title
  • Link
  • Pull (blockquote, picture, video)
  • Response
  • Reader comments (optional)
And that’s it. It’s the five basic units that blogs were built on, distilled to their essence. And titles and comments are important, but Jason’s done without them both. They’re paratext. The real core is link, pull, response.

Phone Size - Phone size comparison made easy!

Show the actual size of a phone on your screen!

Integrated Content Editor (ICE)

Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web.

Released by the New York Times with an online demo at GitHub.

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xScope

Created specifically for designers & developers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, inspecting & testing on-screen graphics and layouts.