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Managing your Energy, Time, and Tasks to have a Complete Day

Tom Spencer

I have also found that this habit of time tracking acts as a tool to help me batch tasks (i.e. emails, reading articles, researching information) and acts as a reminder of what I did during the day when I do an end of day review. Manage your tasks. Traveling and eating. Traveling and eating. Attending meetings.

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4 Conversations Every Overwhelmed Working Parent Should Have

Harvard Business

Talk to your kids about your passion for your work, the skills you’ve developed to excel at your position, and how it brings you joy. When Brittney was required to travel for her job, she never pretended that she was being forced to leave by a sinister boss, even if that would’ve been an easier message to deliver to her kids.

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Health Care Providers Can Use Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experiences

Harvard Business

Mary sought care at a large academic medical center with multiple entrances and towers; at times she was expected to travel long distances due to the sheer size of the facility. Design thinking has already taken hold in health care, leading to the development of new products and the improved design of spaces.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. Our view is that early conceptions of connected health and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) traveled a flawed path.

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

Something that helps me is travel, especially taking flights alone. Even when tasks don’t involve contemplating catastrophes, those that have the potential for large payoffs in the future commonly involve tolerating anxiety. When we’re head-down in the grind, it’s hard to have enough mental space to see the big picture.

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How to Keep Email from Ruining Your Vacation

Harvard Business

A few summers ago I was able to try out a proto-version of Thrive Away, which at the time was an email tool we were developing for HuffPost. .” That’s a problem when the whatever-else-that’s-going-on is supposed to be your unplugging and recharging. I was in Antiparos, Greece, with my children and ex-husband. (We

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. This creates a dilemma for leaders. In this new era of automation, leaders will need to identify new sources of value creation.