Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Time management. During the MBA program, besides attending classes and completing assignments, students also get involved in clubs, competitions, alumni meetings and informational interviews, all while applying for internships and jobs. During these times your best friend will become Google Calendar.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If you’ve created content on that topic, such as blog posts, videos, books, or podcasts, you can send them a link to that material and say, “Your upcoming book sounds terrific. Another way to protect your time is to defer the invitations you accept.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Author a book? Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Let’s say an interview or speech to 100 doctors or real estate experts would require preparation in an area you’ve never fully studied before. But how do you evaluate the myriad smaller opportunities you face every day?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I now have research calls and phone interviews; lunches with literary agents and web developers; conference calls about book titles and publishing schedules; and radio interviews and media prep calls. “So how’s the new book coming?” But I was wrong. ” “Oh, now that I quit my job?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

After reading hundreds of studies, interviewing dozens of experts, and running the gambit of self-experiments (including attending meditation retreats and slogging through a monthlong period of self-induced boredom), I learned that countless strategies can help us mitigate distraction. So how can you gain back control?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

The experiences of Hanna and Michael, individuals whom we interviewed separately, outside of this study, align with these results. Linda, a personal injury lawyer whom we also interviewed separately from our study, readily admits to her work addiction but says she simply enjoys her work too much to change.

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