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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008.

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Stop Doing Low-Value Work

Harvard Business

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 million jobs were lost.

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To Get More Done, Focus on Environment, Expectations, and Examples

Harvard Business

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum.