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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

million days were lost in 2015/16 due to stress. As an owner’s ability to perform suffers due to stress, the management of the business can deteriorate. The American Institute of Stress in 2014 estimated that around $300 billion is lost each year in America due to stress related absenteeism and health costs.

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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. I knew this was the right direction because I felt a lasting surge of energy behind the idea.

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Don’t Call It the “End of the Siesta”: What Spain’s New Work Hours Really Mean

Harvard Business

This line of thinking represents a significant shift, from viewing work-life issues as private concerns to recognizing that managers play a critical role. A mounting body of research shows just how much influence managers have. The boss’s influence.

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3 Ways to Control Your Phone Addiction on Vacation

Harvard Business

Here’s the good news: Americans, as a whole, are finally starting to earn more and take more paid time off. According to a study by Project: Time Off, American workers took an average of 16.8 days from 2015. And the amount of vacation time earned in 2016 jumped nearly one full day—to 22.6—from

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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. To change this worrisome trajectory, you need to get creative about how to get your team members to take vacation. First, make the business case.

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

Harvard Business

During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses. A year later it announced AirREGI, a point-of-sale cash register that worked with smartphones and tables and was integrated with a cloud-based data management system. “‘Why us?’