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3 Ways to Make Time for the Little Tasks You Never Make Time For

Harvard Business

After one extended trip abroad during which he avoided email, he wrote that he had missed a large number of critical messages, including a fulfillment center crisis that caused him to lose more than 20% of monthly orders for his business, media interview opportunities that had expired, and more than a dozen partnership offers.

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5 Ways to Say No to a Networking Request

Harvard Business

When you start to receive dozens of requests per week — almost always for 30-60 minutes of private consultation — you would dramatically handicap your productivity if you tried to do them all. Another way to protect your time is to defer the invitations you accept. But that quickly grows old. Defer your acceptance.

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Minimum Efficient Scale

CaseInterview.com

It refers to a business having “just enough” size to be able to produce a product or deliver a service at a reasonable cost. In a four-hour dedicated writing time block, I get 3.25 hours of productive writing done. hours of productive writing done. I’ll give you an example.