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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

Attend a strategy summit? Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. For them, this system becomes an Opportunity Filter to evaluate the most optimal uses of your available time and resources. In some cases, the impact reward will often carry more weight than the monetary consideration.

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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? Take for example the case of my recent client, an engineering consulting company I’ll call Astride. I also interviewed the partners and a cross section of employees to better understand the anchors on raising Aristide’s productivity. The cause may be more systemic.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. Claman recommends referring to information gleaned from the candidate during the interview process. Seek input.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

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In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). The second is a strategy + adapting to new data mini-game. Time management is certainly a factor. It is unclear why this is the case.

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How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours — and Why That Matters for Your Health

Harvard Business

Michael, the director of strategy for an American insurance company, does not work as much as Hanna. The experiences of Hanna and Michael, individuals whom we interviewed separately, outside of this study, align with these results. Here’s a quick explanation of why: To cope with stress, the body activates several systems (e.g.,

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