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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business

It had been on my mind since September 2015, and I couldn’t wait to get started at the beginning of 2016. I’ve always been a huge fan of time blocking as a way to reserve time for important items. Try one strategy and see how it works. If not, adjust the days or times until you get something that fits.

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

Harvard Business

When a platform strategy requires mixing the digital and the physical, the area of differentiation lies in service delivery in the physical world. During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses. China’s WeChat has most evidently pursued this strategy.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. This meeting is an opportune time to talk about process improvements, challenging stakeholder issues, or career development, all of which will feel more manageable after a vacation.

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Are Chore Wars at Home Holding You Back at Work?

Harvard Business

. “I would feel like I was being selfish by spending that time on my career — for example, by staying late at the office to finish an important project — rather than doing something I knew needed to be done around the house,” she told me. Jane isn’t alone — far from it.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

Here are six strategies to help you and your team members achieve better work-life sustainability through setting and keeping boundaries. Communicate that the organization’s success is based on a marathon, not a sprint. Redistribute work more evenly. So the only reward for doing good work is the addition of more work.

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

Harvard Business

Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups. A truly effectively move will require a concerted strategy that starts at the top and includes not just HR but also operations, marketing, and supply chain.

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