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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

Welcome to yet another opportunity to gain valuable insights from a book review, written by Preeti Vemu, MC intern, MC events organizer extraordinary, and an ex-Deloitte consultant. Every section of Boston Consulting Group on Strategy is a comprehensive article offering insights that can be applied to any business circumstance.

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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department. In working with the Boston Consulting Group, Harvard’s Leslie Perlow found that implementing “predictable time off” (i.e., In a related fashion, making downtime visible is equally helpful.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

Leslie Perlow, a Harvard Business School Professor, describes in Sleeping with Your Smartphone, how an experiment with one team at Boston Consulting Group, successfully took hold and was eventually expanded to 900 teams across 30 countries. Neither you nor anyone on your team should feel truly indispensable.