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4 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Work (Without Adding More to Your Plate)

Harvard Business

Here are four ways you can spend time with your kids while getting work done and teaching them important lessons along the way. Practice time management together. This often takes concentrated time, away from the demands of back-to-back meetings. It has reduced the amount of last-minute drama in our household.

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

Harvard Business

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). These sectors have never been, and never will be, composed purely of digital bits.

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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.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

If Richard was hired, he was going to work remotely at least part of the time, and several team members wanted to learn more about Richard’s time management and organizational skills. ” Richard got the job and he starts at InkHouse next month.