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Earlier this week we discussed creating a "Never Again" folder to track mistakes. Reader dongola7 offers another great suggestion for tracking the opposite—your successes—with a Praise folder.

In between writing hits like "Sugar Magnolia" and "Franklin's Tower," it turns out The Grateful Dead were pretty shrewd businessmen. The Atlantic took a look at the band to find out what managers and freelancers can learn from them.Photo by Alaskan Dude.

It should come as no surprise that money is a pretty powerful motivator for workers, but an article by researchers at Harvard Business School says it takes more than cash to keep employees happy and productive.Photo by crschmidt.

Most people enjoy dinner parties, but endless work meetings? Not so much. Office productivity blog Work Awesome suggests structuring your next meeting more like a dinner party might make them more enjoyable for everyone.

Habitually showing up late for meetings and missing deadlines are tell-tale signs you need to up your organization quotient, but clutter (mental or otherwise) could be affecting your work in other, more subtle ways. Weblog Unclutter has a few questions for you:Photo by tiswango.

* Do client/supervisor requests often linger unanswered for more than 24 hours?

If your company is already tightening its belt, it might not do much good asking for a raise during your next performance review. Instead, consider asking for other perks that might be almost as good as cash in your pocket.Photo by TedsBlog.

Career blogger Penelope Trunk carries a 2007 article from the Harvard Business Review with her everywhere she goes. The article, called The Making of an Expert, discusses the reality of expertise, which, simply put, is this:Photo by Joe Shlabotnik.

Freelancing isn't something you should just jump into, but it makes sense for a good number of workers. If you're looking into, or getting started with, working on your own, here are 10 resources we think every freelancer can learn from.

Productivity guru Merlin Mann interviews best-selling business author Seth Godin about his new book, called Linchpin, discussing lizard and puppy brains, Bob Dylan, and why the cost of failure is so low that you should ignore your brain's instincts.Photo by sheilaellen.

One of the trickiest parts of landing a new job is making sure you get paid what you're worth. Negotiating your salary is part art, and part science, but there's one rule that never changes: be nice.Photo by Orin Zebest.