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Mental Energy Units

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hours), I find it more helpful to manage mental energy. I’ve developed a phrase that I call "Mental Energy Units," or "MEU" for short. I first got introduced to the idea of managing energy, rather than time, from the book The Power of Full Engagement , by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. Here’s the main idea.

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Facts, Opinions, and Conclusions

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For example, if half the audience thinks the business is growing and the other half thinks it’s shrinking, it’s really difficult to have a productive conversation, as the audiences are operating from two completely different mental starting points. It just consumes a lot of mental energy and time.

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Facts, Opinions, and Conclusions

CaseInterview.com

For example, if half the audience thinks the business is growing and the other half thinks it’s shrinking, it’s really difficult to have a productive conversation, as the audiences are operating from two completely different mental starting points. It just consumes a lot of mental energy and time.

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From the Bench and Bedside to the Boardrooms (How to transition from academia into consulting, Part 2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

One of the easiest ways to mess up your interview is to make a mistake with the mental arithmetic. So, one of the skills that all candidates need to work on is their mental math focusing on addition, subtraction, division, rounding, percentages, and fractions. Be comfortable with various units of measurement. Fit Practice.

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Don’t Let Lazy Managers Drive Away Your Top Performers

Harvard Business

However, only 13% of workers worldwide are engaged at work , and employee turnover rates in the United States are at a 17-year high. To discourage lazy management, then, managers must be given the support, incentives, and direction needed to motivate them to dedicate time and energy toward more actively managing their teams.

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business

Wack perceived the world differently than his colleagues in the energy business. Groups of executives are often prevented by their mental frames of reality from perceiving what’s really happening. And even Singapore and the United States have adapted to changing regional and global circumstances using such exercises.

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Nervousness vs. Confidence in Case Interviews

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Level 2: 1) Technical Stuff 2) Mental Stuff 3) Physical Stuff. One of the most useful classes I ever took at Stanford was a one-unit class on public speaking. I took it because I was one unit short of graduating and needed a class to fill that requirement. 2) The second driver of nervousness is what I call “mental stuff."