Article Culture Operations Time Management 
Tom Spencer
APRIL 12, 2024
Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.
Harvard Business
JUNE 10, 2016
My friend likes to tell the story of what happened when she planned for a cross-cultural group of people to meet up to go to the lake when they were on holiday in Europe. But the earlier arrivals were a bit bemused by their colleagues, who apparently operated in a different time zone. Assume nothing but good intentions.
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Harvard Business
JULY 26, 2018
On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 26, 2016
It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Nearly all leaders (96%) claimed they lacked time for strategic thinking, again, because they were too busy putting out fires.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Sometimes it’s been across oceans and time zones (we are a military family), and sometimes it’s been across town (the office was short on space; I was a slave to my children’s schedules; the whole operation was virtual). Get out of the house at least once a day.
Harvard Business
JULY 29, 2016
But what you learn will help you get a sense for whether the candidate is “a cultural fit” for your organization. “Try to understand the type of culture that this candidate has worked in and her ability to learn and adapt to a new ones,” he says. “There are no right or wrong answers,” he says.
Harvard Business
JUNE 18, 2018
Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate. It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric. “The amount of time management teams are spending reacting to dramatic changes in the world is unprecedented.
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