Communication: Why not give up your smartphone?

17 July, 2015

I still remember the world-altering moment when I went phone shopping after owning a smartphone for a year. I found myself looking at the flip-phones and thinking “They still sell those? Why?” My smartphone had altered my view of reality so much that the idea of going back to the way th...

Shocking Stats About Workplace Interruptions

9 July, 2015

Here on Filevine, you’ve learned how to manage your time properly, shut off distractions, break the cycles of blame, what to really give your clients, how to run meetings and more. With this wealth of knowledge, you sit down at your desk to begin your productive workday. Your day is scheduled, your ...

A Filevine Quick Tip: Use IFTTT to Automate Your Business

6 July, 2015

If you’ve never heard of IFTTT let me explain: It stands for “IF This Then That.”  It’s a simple idea that is taking the internet by storm and you could use it to automate your business. Here’s how it works: You tell IFTTT that when X happens, you want it to do Z....

Six Steps to Become a Finisher

26 June, 2015

Is this a good time? If you’re reading this when you should be finishing that brief, then we need to talk. Are you a creative, smart person, who can perform remarkably well in the early stages of a project, but once you get deep enough into it you find your wheels spinning? Do you find that ...

The Contagious Toxicity of Blame

18 June, 2015

You can see the color drain out of your co-worker’s face, his eyes wide in fear as he turns to you. He started sweating just ten minutes into the team meeting. He takes a deep breath and hacks out a few panicked coughs. He’s about to speak, and you know this is the beginning of the end. You want to ...

Why Email Should Die (And How You Can Help Kill It)

29 May, 2015

Ever had one of those nights where you dream of outracing some assassin or dueling with your dream-world arch-nemesis – whoever that may be – and you wake up feeling more exhausted than you were when you lay down? As bad as that may be, even worse is its waking-life equivalent: when you...