Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

energy, enthusiasm, and focus), much of the popular narrative has focused on organizational factors such as job design, leadership, or culture. The first type is commonly known as time-management planning, which involves making to-do lists, prioritizing and scheduling tasks, and ultimately managing one’s time.

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APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done. Executives can also work on culture and coaching.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2018

As a time management coach, I help working parents navigate these challenges on a daily basis. The first is to define how you want to prioritize your time when professional and personal commitments collide. I recommend putting time in your calendar to think about what seems right for you and your family. Family culture.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

To make matters worse, my findings indicated that when the supervisor was copied in often, employees felt less trusted, and this feeling automatically led them to infer that the organizational culture must be low in trust overall, fostering a culture of fear and low psychological safety.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures” Melissa Daimler. For the purposes of this article, I’m assuming that as a manager, you’ve assigned these tasks fairly , and the employee in question isn’t actually burdened with too many non-promotable tasks.). How to Lose Your Best Employees.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Since you are reading this article, we assume you are a good coach, and you are interested in elevating your approach. Here are ten notable examples: Google: Google is renowned for its robust coaching culture. And people 25-34 have a tenure of 2.8

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A friend of mine was having a hard time balancing her career at a large financial firm with her family demands. She worked at one of those all-too-typical workplaces where employees are expected to log 60 hours or so a week — a perfect illustration of what I call a “ culture of overwork.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. The article also highlights the risks of foregoing vacation in terms of impulsiveness, poor concentration, and negativity. First, make the business case.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

In our work with companies, we have seen what happens in a quality-first culture: people spend a lot of time perfecting work that would have had the same impact without the extra hours of tweaking. But we should start thinking about productivity as the amount of impact that the work we produce in a given time can have.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

While productivity is important, the balance between task completion and taking the time to connect with your team is essential in avoiding burnout and making work more enjoyable. A consequence of our often never-ending to-do lists at work is the loss of camaraderie among coworkers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

CEB research says that when we take into account how much money organizations are investing in their performance appraisal technology and how much time managers are spending to evaluate their employees, on average U.S. The philosophy of the company is to see employees improve capabilities over time.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Below I’ve put together a list of tips to help leaders of all kinds be deliberate with their choices, based largely on my years advising startup founders on product, marketing, and management at Google Ventures — and my subsequent work studying and experimenting with personal time-management techniques for my book Make Time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

We found that a lack of flexibility can also hurt the performance and productivity for as much as one-third of the workforce, with 34% of respondents reporting that the structure of their workday makes it challenging to perform in a sustainable way over time. We also found negative implications for companies. These included: Retention.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The other, Joseph, saw how Brittney’s skill in doing this not only made Brittney happier but also changed our whole company culture to be more supportive of working parents. One of us, Brittney, became a mom six years ago and went through this experience of renegotiating boundaries in an intentional way.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Our approach is rooted in extreme programming and agile processes , and the foundation of our work environment is a pair programming culture. I’m not quite as motivated (in terms of my fitness) or organized (in terms of my time management). I wake up at 8 AM, barely enough time to shower and catch the subway.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

For some real-world perspective on becoming a first-time manager, I reached out to my friend Dr. Jim Mitchell, a computer scientist who made the leap into management from an engineering position, eventually retiring as Vice President at Oracle Laboratories. How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Rebecca Knight.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

According to the same study, half of senior leaders believe vacation is encouraged by their company culture, but only 30% of non-managers say the same thing. Being better at our jobs means being better at vacation. And leaders have an important role to play.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

The problem is, while many of us are using paid time off, we’re not using it to its fullest potential. Culture, technology, and poor personal habits encourage us to stay plugged in.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

It might be a bit of a culture shock at first, but all the overwhelmed people with 35 hours a week of meetings will quickly admire your discipline. Second, share your rationale so that the meeting organizer has some context for why you’re not participating.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

We respect the hyper-local culture in places we operate,” Tan said. During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses. “We understood the taxi drivers’ need for daily income. We understood that a lot of people really use cash.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Employees who already have larger networks than their manager may simply see little value in the relationship and feel unnecessarily constrained by the hierarchy. We can quantify actual time managers spent in one-on-one meetings with direct reports based on calendared meeting invitations. One-on-ones remain vital.

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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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Its story of a bibliomaniac who unearths an ancient poem, cracking opening the cultural door to the Renaissance, has inspired me with a creative way to write about a risk capital project that’s due later this week. Right now I’m halfway through The Swerve: How the World Became Modern , by Stephen Greenblatt.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2019

Organizations can help, with a little insight from behavioral science.

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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.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In theory, this system of “multiteaming” offers a number of upsides: You can deploy your expertise exactly where and when it’s most needed, share your knowledge across groups, and switch projects during lull times, avoiding costly downtime. Magazine Article. Further Reading. The Overcommitted Organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Social media can connect us to new ideas, help us share our work, and allow previously unheard voices to influence culture. Yet it can also be a highly addictive time-sink if we’re not careful about our goals , purpose , and usage. Barcroft/Getty Images. I found I needed to be flexible about this experiment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

You might say, for instance, “ I read an interesting article in HBR that shows how allowing employees to work from home improves results.” “Many managers understand that people find working from home valuable and motivating,” he says. . “Face time in the office is important.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

So while some articles have pointed to Millennials as the driving force behind bleisure, our analysis shows they aren’t taking more bleisure trips than other demographics. If both take one bleisure trip, the bleisure rates will be 50% for the occasional traveler and 10% for the frequent one.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Often the trouble spots arise organically over time, without intention.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

I responded that even if it is the norm for this company’s culture — and potentially many others — it is not acceptable universally, nor should it be. She has anxiety about the possibility of missing an email at midnight. “Is this normal?” ” she asked me.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

“The amount of time management teams are spending reacting to dramatic changes in the world is unprecedented. One of the key findings of our conversations was how purpose created advantage internally by aligning and energizing the organization. Antonio Lucio, CMO of HP finds that purpose streamlines decision-making.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

The most effective approach is to promote a workplace culture that embraces respect and trust so that difficult conversations and disagreements (political or otherwise) can take place in a civil environment.

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