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The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Harvard Business

If that weren’t enough, according to research done at top strategy consulting firms , managers struggle to distinguish between those who work 80-hour weeks and those who work 50-60-hour weeks, suggesting that the extra work generally isn’t noticed. I think about my feet, where they’re going to land.

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

Harvard Business

Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments. When a platform strategy requires mixing the digital and the physical, the area of differentiation lies in service delivery in the physical world.

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

Harvard Business

Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits. These extra hours were not part of the manager’s labor budget and were only given to the stores that were identified as likely to increase their sales by Co-PI Kesavan’s analysis. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity.

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