Best Blog Articles – 10-8-2006

We love to read as well as write here at PYW. Often, we write about what other people are saying and extending the conversation. Other times we just wish we wrote the article in the first place and can do nothing but provide great kudos to our fellow business bloggers.

We’re handing out kudos here.

Every week, I’ll try and give you a good selection of what I consider to be the best blog articles I’ve read during the week – and if you have seen others, please put them into the comments so they can be shared with other readers here at PYW.

So ease yourself back into the work week by checking out great ideas and writing from people I admire out here in the blogosphere.

Here are this week’s selections:

David Lorenzo at the Career Intensity blog asks us this: Want to Double Your Productivity? Then gives five great habits that will help you do just that. This list can be oriented to those in Sales, but I found them all to be important for getting your head into the right place for the work ahead that day.

Jim Estill at the CEO blog has a short note on how he is finding the times and conditions of high productivity and the four things he is tracking in his life. The couple of comments are pretty interesting, too, with some good advice from Jim. Finding High Productivity.

Pamela Slim over at Escape from Cubicle Nation suggests that we should outsource everything to free up our time to focus on more rewarding and/or profitable pursuits. What she outsources instead of her family doing it themselves is here at “Overwhelmed with too much to do? Outsource everything possible.”

Wayne Hurlbert writes Blog Business World and notes that bloggers, especially company bloggers, should polish up their speaking skills through podcasting (we’ll be doing that here at PYW as well) and then into public speaking. Bloggers, he says, are “in demand as interview experts.” And the expert blogger he called out? Why, our own Tris Hussey! Check out “Bloggers as speakers: Talking business.”

My personal favorite this week is a mixture of practical business with the human touch. I won’t give the story away, but suffice to say it’s not just about Milestones in a Project Life. Timothy Johnson gives us the carpe factum. A seriously great read.

Finally, for a little bit of fun (and cubicle envy), check out these pimped up cubes for work. Alex Kjerulf, The Chief Happiness Officer, has superb pics of different styles of office areas in companies out there. You have to see the pictures and demand an upgrade where you work! Click to the pics at 10 seeeeeeriously cool workplaces.

I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Scot