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Productivity Boost for Consultants

Consulting Success

Productivity Boost for Consultants is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Business Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week

Management Consulted

If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email! This is not your typical time management book. Quick overview This book serves as an opportunity for a paradigm shift of how people perceive life, career, money and retirement.

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4 Lessons Learned Outside the Classroom during an MBA

Tom Spencer

Time management. In order to take on all of these responsibilities, one has to develop outstanding time management skills. During these times your best friend will become Google Calendar. In order to take on all of these responsibilities, one has to develop outstanding time management skills.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses.

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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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The 8 Digital Productivity Tools Everyone Should Adopt

Harvard Business

That’s why my friends and colleagues often ask me which technologies I regard as must-haves: the tools and tactics that will make a big impact on their productivity without spending a lot of time or money getting up and running. For most people, the goal is to adopt the smallest number of tools necessary to work efficiently.

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Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week

Harvard Business

I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days. 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?”

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