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How to Be More Productive Without Burning Out

Harvard Business

According to a 2008 survey , the vast majority of professionals (94%) worked 50 hours or more a week, and almost half worked more than 65 hours a week. Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. The same is true for productivity.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

HOW TO READ THIS WHITE PAPER This white paper is divided into five sections. A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth. These ethical failures are often not the result of one "bad actor" alone but systemic issues.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations (Sixth ed.). Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Here’s how. Get top-level guidance and metrics. Ask the bosses to tell you: How much time do they expect employees to spend learning during work hours? How will your unit’s monthly, quarterly, and annual goals change as a result? That brings us to the fourth lesson: how to talk about learning.

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Why COOs Should Think Like Behavioral Economists

Harvard Business

Nudge , a 2008 book by Richard Thaler (winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in economics) and Cass Sunstein refers to this as choice architecture. Display a performance metric on the wall? Your company will be more productive and happier for it. Just consider the following: Stock a drawer with candy bars?

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

It has long championed inclusion as a partial solution to business challenges like turnover, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. In 2008, it became the first global management consulting firm to reach carbon neutral status. Deloitte was recently named one of the best workplaces for women. Career Growth.

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How Streaming Is Changing Music (Again)

Harvard Business

Despite early concerns that falling revenue (and online piracy) would reduce the availability of music, research by economists Luis Aguiar and Joel Waldfogel shows that the number of music products created between 2000 and 2008 tripled. Skeptics may worry that quantity is coming at the expense of quality.

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