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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

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. You and Your Team Series.

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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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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Exit interviews were usually handled by junior managers on the HR team, but Amrita felt that given the high rate of attrition among doctors at Krisna over the past year, it was her responsibility as head of HR to talk to Dr. Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice. Ben Edwards/Getty Images.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

. “Even though you’re right 90% of the time, the 10% that you’re wrong”—if, say, a candidate has vastly overstated his qualifications or has other professional skeletons in his closet—“can be very damaging.” Say something like, “I understand Nancy helped implement a new payroll system.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

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). Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. And the third is cause vs. effect.

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

Harvard Business

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., Hanna works long hours, but she is not mentally pre-occupied with work.

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