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GTD Meets GPT: How to Adopt The AI 2-minute Rule

Whole Whale

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. This allows us to clear our minds and focus on the present moment. GTD is a five-step process: Capture : Capture everything that comes into your mind, whether it’s a task, an idea, or a thought.

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. As a leader, don’t give up on encouragement while looking for positions and projects that are grounded in routines and are not critically dependent on innovation. That’s the growth mindset. McKinsey & Company.

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Why and How Rituals Build Resilience in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals To Build Mindfulness. Here are some examples: Rituals to Celebrate Success.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change. This is the part where, as a team, you determine which project (i.e. Being adaptable will also require a lot of emotional intelligence, keeping an open mind, and dropping personal ego. Make a list of all the various projects going on. Phase 2: Manage Change.

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The Neuroscience of Purpose: Recharging in the Nonprofit World

ASU Lodestar Center

The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?). It directs our attention, is responsible for moral decision-making, allows us to empathize with others, and helps coordinate the thousands of signals rushing around your brain.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

a nonprofit project), Golden-i , SixthSense. Their disruptive business model is make a vast improvement on preventative healthcare by having patients use wearable biometric devices like the activity tracker Fitbit. It was developed at Singularity University and uses technology from the NASA Mars Rover project.