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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Whatever the case may be, you might find yourself with some time before you begin consulting. This article is not discouraging taking some necessary time off to rest, relax, and recuperate. With your new-found free time upon securing a job, consider learning a new skill or two. How best should you use it?

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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.

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Scheduling Meetings Effectively When You’re Self-Employed

Harvard Business

It’s important for all professionals to use their time efficiently. In the early days of my marketing strategy consulting business, when I had clients on retainer with whom I met every week, an in-person meeting took a full half-day: 90 minutes (with occasional spillover), plus 45 minutes of travel time on either end.

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Do You Know How Each Person on Your Team Likes to Work?

Harvard Business

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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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

Unfamiliar but important tasks often have a learning curve that makes how much time they’ll take to complete unpredictable. Working on them often feels more clumsy than efficient, which is another subtle factor in why we don’t do them. Something that helps me is travel, especially taking flights alone.

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Making Time for Networking as a Working Parent

Harvard Business

How do you meet new people if traveling to conferences is out of the question? Use their social media profiles for updates on their life you can use as a reason to connect, or take the 30 seconds to pass along a quick note when an article, video, or anything else brings that person up in your mind. Use business travel wisely.

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