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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% per year between 1987 and 2014. So more stable scheduling is feasible, and holds the potential for improved sales and productivity. The results were striking.

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The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Harvard Business

Many of us hold principles that keep us from pursuing a more productive lifestyle. For example, one of the most common ones is the belief that increasing productivity, or getting the most out of your time, will decrease the quality of your work, or your ability to do tasks perfectly.

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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

Prepare for chunking: reading a whole book in one go may not be that productive. Burkeman looks at time management in a wholly different way – helping to go beyond the usual advice (don’t sweat the small stuff, get focused, be productive, use a diary and a to-do-list etc), and presents techniques suited to the modern always-on age.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. In 2015 AirPAYMENT went live, eliminating the small-business headache of processing payments and managing cash.