NeoAcademic

MARCH 25, 2021

The position principally requires responsibilities in the management and administration of project personnel and secondarily in the completion of scientific research tasks, such as assigned literature review or data analysis. Google Docs and sheets) Maintain integrity of confidential data (e.g.,

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). In an argument many years ago with a good friend of mine, the debate boiled down to whether creative endeavour and success / value was at all related to time taken to create. You’ll find the link here.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Many of today’s organizations sabotage flow by setting counter-productive expectations on availability, responsiveness, and meeting attendance, with research by Adobe finding that employees spend an average of six hours per day on email. Traveling, often long-distance, to meet people face-to-face, when a phone call would suffice.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2016

Over a year ago, we launched a study to describe the content and nature of the comments provided by the references, yielding data from a sample of 12,800 references — the largest analysis of feedback that we’re aware of. We then looked at the most frequently occurring themes in the work-related strengths.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

It’s all about rebalancing the cost-benefit analysis: make the benefits of action feel bigger, and the costs of action feel smaller. Suppose you’re repeatedly putting off the preparation you need to do for an upcoming meeting. How can you become less myopic about your elusive tasks?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

The organization wonders why no one can “meet” a deadline. The organization lives with many delays when the managers choose a shared services model. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. Managers thought serial lifecycles worked. The customers wait for something useful.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. One way to do this is to measure the cost of meetings.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One approach is to apply a time-utility analysis (similar in form to a cost-benefit) to the subjects you’re interested in learning. “Time” is time to learn. Combine time and utility, and you get a simple 2×2 matrix with four quadrants: Learn it right away: high utility, low time-to-learn.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

As most business meetings take place during the working week, there is usually no business reason for travelers to arrive two days before meetings start or depart two days after meetings end. Hospitality and destination management professionals can use data like this to better anticipate and meet the needs of business travelers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Receiving additional staffing during understaffed periods, which were identified based on analysis of store traffic and conversion rate data. 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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

Back-to-back meetings, a constant stream of conference calls, and obligatory break room chitchat make it next to impossible to complete important tasks. Working remotely, on the other hand, “gives you the time and space to concentrate without distractions,” Bloom says. “Face time in the office is important.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

In a recent meta-analysis of 148 studies, having strong social relationships was associated with a 50% reduction in risk of mortality. Seek out like-minded people who live nearby and meet up face to face. We are less likely to catch a cold or suffer from acute stress responses if we have a solid network of friends.

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