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☆ Use these 3 exercises to stay on top of your work and life priorities, says Google's productivity expert
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Alex Koller | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

You shouldn't prioritize more than three things at a time, says Laura Mae Martin, Google's executive productivity advisor. Every three months is a good time to reassess your three key priorities in life, but being selective about those areas requires a tradeoff mentality, she said. Highlight your calendarFirst, it's important to define your priorities and evaluate whether your actions reflect those intentions. Spend a week doing certain activities at a specific time and then the following week change that up to see what works best for you. Over time, you can use your journal to observe patterns that reveal the conditions that allow you to work optimally.

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☆ Google’s productivity expert: The No. 1 skill that gives successful employees a competitive edge
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

It's her job to help employees and C-suite leaders at the tech giant get more done — without burning out. The most productive people share one skill that gives them a competitive edge in the workplace, according to Martin: setting specific, concrete priorities instead of vague, indefinite goals. Martin suggests choosing three priorities to focus on at a time as "very few of us can focus on 10 large things." Martin encourages people to visualize their tasks like rocks, pebbles and sand in a jar. In some cases — like a client emergency or an assignment from your boss — you'll have to shift your focus.

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☆ The no-tech Tuesday night challenge was apparently a hit at Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-04 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Martin's personal success with the challenge inspired her to bring the tradition to the Google offices. However, asking tech bros to stay away from their tech — even for just a night — required a strategic introduction. "Pick one night a week is so much less powerful than no-tech Tuesday," she said. At the end of the challenge, Martin said that 97.2% of participants reported feeling that no-tech Tuesday in some way positively impacted their work performance and/or stress level, and 92% said they planned to continue the challenge. Advertisement"Some participants have been doing the challenge for five years and have kept up with every single Tuesday night since I first held it," Martin said.

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☆ Google advisor has a simple trick for identifying your productivity 'power hours'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-26 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewNot all hours of the day are created equal, according to Google's executive productivity advisor, Laura Mae Martin. Her job is narrowing down the most productive times for some of Google's top leaders, and her method is surprisingly pretty simple. But everyone has their "power hours," which Martin describes as "the two to three hours a day that you feel your most productive." Ideally, Martin said these power hours would be spent on tasks related to your top three priorities. If they partially overlap with other fixed commitments like mandatory meetings, Martin recommends blocking your power hours to whatever degree possible.

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☆ Clarence Thomas raised him 'as a son.' Now he's facing 25-plus years on weapons and drug charges.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"For me, in so many ways, it's rewarding because it's brought me, again, full circle," Thomas told Lamb. Related storiesWhen neither placement prevented Martin from acting out with minor drug use and other petty crimes, the Thomases cut him off, Martin told BI. AdvertisementLast summer, according to court records reviewed by BI, Martin was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and weapons possession. Martin says he was eventually expelled from Randolph-Macon Academy for failing a drug test as a junior in high school. "I actually don't know if they know that I'm locked up — I'm not sure they'd care too much," Martin told BI.

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☆ The 10 books the rich will be reading this summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

That's why J.P. Morgan Private Bank, every May, releases its summer reading list, often serving as a book club for billionaires. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the list, now called the J.P. Morgan Summer Reading List. The 10 books are carefully curated to match the tastes and preoccupations of J.P. Morgan's wealthy clients. It also helps with client events, since authors on the list often agree to do special dinners or speaking events for J.P. Morgan clients. Authors love being on the list as well since J.P. Morgan buys thousands of books to hand out and since clients often refer the books to others.

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☆ Google's executive productivity advisor says these 2 common 'pitfalls' are making people less efficient at work
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The first obstacle is overcommitting, Martin said. Related stories"So I think we all fall into that trap sometimes, and it's important to realize that that's not always going to set you up for the best output," Martin told HBR. AdvertisementTo overcome overcommitting, Martin told HBR that identifying your top three priorities daily, weekly, and monthly can be helpful. AdvertisementMartin told HBR that once people become more intentional with their time, they should use it wisely to address projects or tasks. She later gave tips on how people can approach emails, meetings, and other day-to-day office tasks while reaching peak productivity.

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“We’ll just have to commiserate about the Eagles’ chances this year,” Mr. Holt said. Guests were seated at long tables for dinner — burrata and branzino — topped with flowers and cans of La Croix, which was one of the event’s sponsors. The comedian and actor Mae Martin shared a table with Eriona Hysolli, a scientist who is overseeing efforts to reintroduce the extinct woolly mammoth in Siberia. “There is an inherent ranking that comes with a list, which I feel, like, is always difficult to wrap your mind around when you’re talking about art,” he said. Mr. Torres said he turned preparation for the evening “into a project” by making an outfit, which included a pointy gold hat with a matching gold jacket and a blue tie around his waist.

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☆ Analysis: Here’s why many Black people despise Clarence Thomas. (It’s not because he’s a conservative.)
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

CNN —Long before he became a Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas told a story at a public gathering that still sounds shocking years later. Justice Clarence Thomas jokes with his clerks in his chambers at the Supreme Court building in Washington in 2016. AP“His entire judicial philosophy is at war with his own biography,” Michael Fletcher, co-author of “Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas,”. “He’s arguably benefited from affirmative action every step of the way.”Thomas has admitted that he was accepted at Yale Law School under an affirmative action policy. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas looks at the displays inside the Pin Point Heritage Museum.

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☆ I'm a productivity advisor at Google. Here are 6 tips I give executives to better manage their email, meetings, and workload.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-08 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Laura Mae Martin has been at Google for 12 years and created her own role, productivity advisor. I also started a weekly employee newsletter for productivity tips, which more than one-third of Google employees now subscribe to. I work with Google executives and run the Productivity@Google program to help all employees stay productive, even when our surroundings make it difficult. Naturally, as the productivity advisor for Google, I use Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Calendar more to connect with the right people. With the return to the office, I love that I can set my working locations and hours in Google Calendar so that my teammates know where and when I'm working.

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