Can kindness really boost productivity? And what does true kindness look like day-to-day at work? Tune in — Graham Allcott, author of the award winning book "KIND: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work", has the answers.

Topics

• Graham Allcott, Think Productive, and his lates book: Kind.The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work.
• What is kindness and in what way it's different from being nice
• Kindness is about truth and grace
• Kindness is also limiting the damage 
• Business bastards
• 8 principles to guide a “kindful” approach at work
•  Listen deeply 
• Kindness is a practice
• People first, work second
• Be humble
• Treat people the way THEY want to be treated
• Slow down
• Kindness starts with you but it doesn't ends with you

Show notes

- Graham Allcott
- Think Productive
- The Productivity Ninja Book
- KIND: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work
- Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

The Eight Principles of Kindfulness:

1. Kindness starts with you — personal awareness and treating yourself with kindness.
2. Set clear expectations — clarity about vision, values, roles and responsibilities.
3. Listen deeply — full presence, empathy, understanding others commit- ment beyond productivity.
4. People first, work second. Always. — treat colleagues as humans first, not just resources.
5. Be humble — lead with humility, give credit, take responsibility, avoid ego.
6. Treat people the way THEY want to be treated — empathize, respect individuality, adapt to people’s needs.
7. Slow down — avoid the “busy = productive” assumption; take time for real human connection and reflection.
8. It doesn’t end with you — kindness should ripple outward: build a kind culture, influence others, sustain kindness over time.

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Can you work intentionally while keeping your productivity healthy and pressure-free? How do you find the vision you want to pursue? And what are the simplest productivity rules worth following?  You’ll find the answers in this podcast episode.

🎙️ Topics:

• Productivity as a tool
• How to achieve intentionality 
• You pay with your life for everything that you do! (4000 weeks)
• How do you know what your goal is ➡️ Life vision — how to find it
• Why and how to adjust your productivity system to your personality, traits, strengths and weaknesses
• TOP 4 universal productivity rules that work for everyone! (see below)
•  What is weekly review all about

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📝 Show notes

• How to Improve the Quality of Your Customer Service - A Trick
• Nozbe as CRM - a post on Nozbe Blog
• Automatically Create Tasks with Due Dates from Calendly Notifications – Trick
• Emailing tasks to Nozbe

💥 Key Takeaways from the Episode

In this episode, we show that Nozbe — although primarily a task, project, and team-collaboration app — can fully replace a lightweight CRM for small businesses. Using projects, tasks, comments, tags, and templates, you can recreate all essential CRM functions: client database, contact history, sales pipeline, customer support, reporting, automation, and team collaboration. This means your team doesn’t need multiple tools — everything happens in one place, saving time and eliminating communication chaos. Nozbe becomes the central hub for client work: from the first contact, through sending offers and managing projects, all the way to post-sale support.

🎯 Benefits of Integrating CRM and a Project Management App

Integrating a CRM with project management software saves time, automates tedious tasks, and allows you to focus on real business growth. But how does this work in practice?

1. Everything in One Place
2. Faster Project Execution
3. Increased Customer Satisfaction
4. Better Team Collaboration

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Can you work intentionally while keeping your productivity healthy and pressure-free? How do you find the vision you want to pursue? And what are the simplest productivity rules worth following?  You’ll find the answers in this podcast episode.

🎙️ Topics:

• Productivity as a tool
• How to achieve intentionality 
• You pay with your life for everything that you do! (4000 weeks)
• How do you know what your goal is ➡️ Life vision — how to find it
• Why and how to adjust your productivity system to your personality, traits, strengths and weaknesses
• TOP 4 universal productivity rules that work for everyone! (see below)
•  What is weekly review all about

💥 TOP 4 universal productivity rules that work for everyone!

1️⃣  Keeping a task list in one consistent (!) place
2️⃣ Planning your day — with tasks matched to high-energy and low-energy levels
3️⃣ Managing new commitments and “incoming requests”: looking at opportunity costs — what I won’t do if I choose this activity; letting new tasks and obligations into your life with awareness
4️⃣ Weekly review — updating your system, choosing priorities, and checking whether your actions are actually moving you closer to your vision

📝 Show notes

• Dominik Juszczyk
• The 4000 Weeks book by Oliver Burkeman
• Small habits , Big Wins, No Office ep. 61
• Ebook 10 Steps To Ultimate Productivity

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Feeling overwhelmed by endless tasks? Discover the secret to staying calm while getting more done! In this episode Mike St Pierre shares the qualities of calm productivity—from being flexible and organized to mastering massive projects without the stress. Ready to transform your work life with simple, powerful habits?

🎙️ Topics:

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• Who is Mike St Pierre
•  Most people haven't been trained in productivity and working efficiently
• Servant leadership and being humble
• Why you want to practice calm productivity
• What are the qualities of calm productivity practitioners
• Can-do and enthusiastic attitude + curiosity - key qualities you can't teach anyone
• How to foster calmness? By going back "to the center"  through  habits, systems, journaling, getting out to the nature, unplugging, gratitude, taking care of your physical environment
• The importance of a weekly review
• Time blocking
• Progressing and tweaking as part of boosting your productivity in a calm way
• How to get in touch with Mike St Pierre

📝 Show notes

- Mike St. Pierre
- Episode 75 on journaling 
- Weekly review at Nozbe
- Mighty Fridays at Nozbe

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In a world that rewards busyness over progress, these 10 books taught me how to slow down, focus better, and create more with less.
From the micro-improvements of Atomic Habits to the deep focus of Deep Work, from the clarity of Essentialism and The One Thing to the structure of Getting Things Done and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, these ideas reshaped how I think, work, and live.
This episode is about rediscovering what really drives productivity, purpose, and peace and serenity.

🎙️ Topics:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
• Getting Things Done – David Allen
•  Deep Work - Cal Newport
• The One Thing - Gary Keller & Jay Papasa
•  Hell Yeah Or No - Derek Sivers
• Essentialism - Greg McKeown
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
• The E-Myth - Michael E. Gerber
• 10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity - Michael Sliwinski

📝 Show notes

- Michael's interview with  Derek Sivers
- Michael's interview with Greg McKeown
- Small habits , Big Wins, No Office ep. 61
- Ebook 10 Steps To Ultimate Productivity

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Many leaders think that the newest tools and fancy tech will magically fix productivity and make teamwork effortless. The hard truth is that: it won’t.
Without a clear communication agreement and shared rules everyone actually follows, even the most expensive apps are just digital chaos in disguise.
Here’s what really makes a team click.

🎙️ Topics:

• Technology is only half the success – why tools alone aren’t enough
• The communication agreement as the foundation of teamwork
• Technology vs. organizational culture – what really drives effectiveness
• Clear communication rules as a path to higher productivity
• How to create a good communication agreement – the Nozbe example
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous communication – finding the right balance
• Communicating through tasks – why “Task me” works better than messaging
• Order in projects and tasks as part of team culture
• How to sustain a healthy communication culture in your team

📝 Show notes

- Asynchronous communication
- Task Comments in Nozbe - Your Communication Superpower
- Task-Based Communication: What It Is and How to Do It Right

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Running a small business and always short on time? Do you feel like you’re drowning in details and don’t know where to start? If you’re looking for a way to finally organize your projects and stop worrying about forgetting something, see how a project management app might be exactly what saves your business.

🎙️ Topics:

• Why do even 1- or 2-person businesses need a simple project and task management system?
• What do you need to watch out for when you implement a project and task management tool?
• How to implement an app like Nozbe
• How can Nozbe grow together with your business
• How to collaborate with others using Nozbe
• Nozbe Expert program - join!

📝 Show notes

- Stay in touch with Asia
- Another episode on solopreneurship with Jeff Sanders
- How to eliminate chaos in a company – a proven system of communication and project management for teams

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Your vacation is over, but instead of feeling refreshed and motivated, you feel down and drained? You might be experiencing post-vacation blues. See why this happens and how to deal with it.

🎙️ Topics:

– What Causes Post-Vacation Sadness?
– 6 Tips for Coping with Post-Vacation Blues
– Discomfort as a Trigger for Change
– Nozbe's Corner - Personalizing the sidebar

📝 Show notes

- Cal Newport How to Reinvent Your Life in 4 Months (Classic Episode from August, 2023)
- How to prepare everything at work for vacation - ep. 74
- Small Habits - Big Wins: No Office Podcast - ep. 50
- Journaling: 5 Minutes a Day That Could Change Your Life - No Office Podcast - ep. 75:

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See how to organize your work, to direct your endeavours and boost your productivity thanks to regular weekly reviews.
The purpose of the review isn’t to try and fit more into your schedule. It’s about figuring out what is and isn’t working for you and how you can work better!

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

• What are the benefits of doing regular weekly reviews
• What issues people usually have with weekly reviews and how to cope with them
• How to run the easiest and the best weekly review

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🔗 Show notes

• A chapter from Michael's No Office book
• Episode 22 about Core hours

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Have you thought of working only on your iPad? Using iPad as your only or main computer? Watch this episode to see if such an approach is effective for everyone and how to tackle it.

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

• How Rafal used iPad Pro for work and why he decided to sell it…
• How’s Michael’s #iPadOnly lifestyle
• How’s Rafal using shortcuts across his Apple machines
• …and which Apple device he decided to buy after all ;)

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🙋‍ Meet the Hosts

• Michael Sliwiński (@msliwinski)
• Rafał Sobolewski (@sobolowy)

🔗 Show notes

• Nozbe Product Vlog
• Multiple teams in Nozbe
• Michael’s blogging and coding on iPad
• Michael’s Home Office setup from 2021
• No Office ep. 29 - Working across time zones
• The iPadOnly Home Office of Augusto Pinaud - No Office Podcast, ep. 24
• The Podcast

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