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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%.

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The 3 Things to Know Before a Sales Meeting with an Executive

LSA Global

A Sales Meeting with an Executive is Always High Stakes Solution sellers who get a sales meeting with a target company’s executive consistently close more complex deals than those who sell at lower levels. Financials: income statement, balance sheet, and key ratio trends ?

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion in assets, but only 2 months to achieve the same amount of balance sheet expansion this year.

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Greek default in all but name - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

It is surprising that ratings agencies did not classify the writedown as a default when you consider that S&P defines sovereign default as “the failure to meet interest or principal payments on the due date…contained in the original terms of the rated obligation when issued”.

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Nothing Magical About 2% Inflation Target Says Bernanke

MishTalk

Alas, his brain actually went into reverse: Bernanke Open to Raising Inflation Target Fed Struggles to Meet. Others, such as Scott Sumner of Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, argue that the Fed should adopt a goal for the growth of nominal gross domestic product, rather than focusing on a price index.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. Not person-based optimization, but optimization for the products/services that the organization needs. They all say something like this: We need resilience in product development and delivery. That's wrong.

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Ivory Tower Academics, Inflation, and Kindness

MishTalk

And long-term rates are what matter for capital investment, which is key to increasing the economy’s growth potential and raising productivity.". Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away! Balance sheet recession" might go away!? Real yields might not rise, but it’s unlikely they would fall.