Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

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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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2018

As a time management coach, I help working parents navigate these challenges on a daily basis. Certain positions require more travel or more work outside of normal business hours. Guilt because you feel like you’re letting others down — no matter what you decide, you will lose. Job constraints.

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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

JULY 26, 2018

For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Spurred on by the internet revolution in the early 2000s, the company added verticals such as real estate, the bridal industry, travel, beauty salons, and restaurants.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. As a leadership coach, I work with many female leaders and managers on improving their time management skills and work-life balance. I’ve changed their names and some details.)

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Traveling, often long-distance, to meet people face-to-face, when a phone call would suffice. Make it okay for employees to not be in a hyper-responsive state and schedule uninterrupted time to get into a state of flow. Start: Do whatever it takes to start your engine. Set Realistic Expectations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

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. If your child sees that it’s hard for you, they can better understand that your occasional absence is no reflection of your love for them.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

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. Mary faced an additional set of challenges once she got to the hospital. They would seek out patterns and aim to define the real problem at hand.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

Something that helps me is travel, especially taking flights alone. When we’re head-down in the grind, it’s hard to have enough mental space to see the big picture. Pay attention to what naturally helps you do this. There’s nothing like a literal 10,000-foot view to give me a clearer perspective on my path.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

Travel Association’s Project: Time Off, last year 54% of Americans left unused vacation time on the table, amounting to 662 million days that could have been used to make them less stressed — and more productive. This back-to-work email dread is very powerful. According to the most recent study by the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In corporate travel, extending a business trip for personal purposes is known as “bleisure,” an awkward term that’s only saving grace is that it’s less awful than the alternative, “bizcation.” To this end, we analyzed 29 million business trips booked by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) between 2011 and 2015.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

But if you used Evernote, all your notes would be in one place, because Evernote makes it easy to collect and organize your notes, whether they consist of the first draft you typed directly into an Evernote note, a business card you snapped and stored (so it’s now text searchable) or an online article you’ve clipped.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2018

Because of this, some might put off their time away, figuring they’ll get to it when their schedule isn’t so demanding, only to discover at the end of the year that they haven’t used up their paid time off.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days. Before I started using Untouchable Days, I treaded water — I wrote articles, I gave speeches. Hayon Thapaliya/DUCEPT Pascal/ hemis.fr/Getty Getty Images. I hate meetings. They sit subconsciously in my brain, taking up space. I prepare for them in my notebooks.

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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? And it could make your employees happier, thanks to greater flexibility and less travel time.

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