Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2016

When productivity starts to slide, it’s not always easy to pinpoint the cause. Is it a problem of time management? The partners were concerned about levels of staff productivity and performance relative to the competition. And what are the productivity effects of taking it on? What could be the cause?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In the flurry of statistics that exist around personal productivity, there’s one I find especially alarming : The average person is distracted or interrupted every 40 seconds when working in front of their computer. In productivity circles, this phenomenon is known as Parkinson’s law. Sarah Lawrence/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I now have research calls and phone interviews; lunches with literary agents and web developers; conference calls about book titles and publishing schedules; and radio interviews and media prep calls. I realized that what I needed was a practical way to get more work done without taking more time. But I was wrong.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

To understand the connections and applications, we interviewed over 20 CMOs and CEOs, finding a remarkably similar pattern across a highly diverse set of companies. “The amount of time management teams are spending reacting to dramatic changes in the world is unprecedented.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The world is replete with SWOT mechanisms for evaluating a prospective new product offering, as well as opportunity assessment templates for evaluating a project against overall business goals, customer impact, strategic potential, and competitive urgency. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After one extended trip abroad during which he avoided email, he wrote that he had missed a large number of critical messages, including a fulfillment center crisis that caused him to lose more than 20% of monthly orders for his business, media interview opportunities that had expired, and more than a dozen partnership offers.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

When you start to receive dozens of requests per week — almost always for 30-60 minutes of private consultation — you would dramatically handicap your productivity if you tried to do them all. Another way to protect your time is to defer the invitations you accept. But that quickly grows old. Defer your acceptance.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Design thinking has already taken hold in health care, leading to the development of new products and the improved design of spaces. For instance, a team investigating several no-shows would quickly see that many cases do not necessarily involve a patient’s forgetfulness or time management.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Or they may result from a superior’s psychological makeup, such as a high need for control or a desire to appear productive. Other times, illegitimate tasks are assigned for more nefarious reasons, such as when a boss assigns a demeaning or time-consuming and needless task as a display of power or in order to humiliate a subordinate.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. And the third is cause vs. effect.

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