Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

Management 11

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

Working long hours, taking few vacations, and never truly being “off” — because of the ubiquity of digital devices — is “harmful to your relationships, your health, and also your productivity,” he says. Skimp on exercise, sleep, and wholesome food. Redefine success.

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How To Exercises Case Study Case Studies 52

Kai Davis

JANUARY 11, 2018

Email marketing is great for helping you: Exercise your writing muscle. Exercise your critical thinking muscle. Elaborate multi-part story-driven campaigns that lead buyers to purchase a product or service. Promote a case study of a client that had great results with your service. A first date before marriage.

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Marketing Consulting Exercises Case Study 75

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

’ Or, ‘I value generating a high-quality product for my client, so I want to be present on this call.’ Eating well and getting plenty of exercise and sleep are critical to keeping stress at bay. Case Study #1: Support your team and foster positivity within the ranks. “But I do exercise a lot.”

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How To Construction Case Study Case Studies 43

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Depending on what you’re working on, “pay attention to where you feel comfortable and where you are most productive,” and frame your request around that. Instead, talk to your boss “about how you will be more productive” in a new space. Can I go across the street to work at the coffee shop to do this work?

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Conference Case Study Case Studies Study 49

Tsavo Neal

MAY 25, 2017

One sells $10 products, and the other sells $10K-$100K, high-touch consulting services. Core Product. Ultimately, the only thing that matters for consultants is number 12 — core product. “It was the quality of their product — the quality of their advice — that made them valuable and significant to their clients.

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Consulting How To Industry Marketing 60

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To better understand how these work, try the exercise below on your own or with your team. ” There are a variety of ways you can use this exercise beyond one meeting. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with.

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 38

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

My coursework was very informative and my research was in exercise physiology where I compared the fitness benefits of snowshoeing versus running. It was one of the first studies conducted on the newer, lightweight snowshoes and was cited in over 100 lay journals. I was in Vermont and there was lots of snow!

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Interviews Consulting Government Case Interview 100

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

These are examples of the note-taking approach I recommend during a case study interview. The other is for the structure of the case (this is the issue tree and this is the set of notes you would show the interviewer). Why are customers willing to pay so much more for the client's product, but not anyone else's?

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Case Interview Interviews Data Exercises 40

Tsavo Neal

MARCH 20, 2019

As a consultant or small firm, marketing and generating leads is an exercise in discipline. As a consultant, your expertise is your product. Your expertise is a product of your thinking. You can leverage articles, blog posts, podcasts, interviews, case studies, presentations, speeches, videos, or a mixture.

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Consulting Marketing Sales Tools 101

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization? Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Managing a toxic person can eat up your time, energy, and productivity. “If someone is draining you, build yourself up by exercising, eating right, sleeping, and taking breaks, both short-term ones and vacations,” she says. Case Study #1: Give direct feedback and support the rest of the team.

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Management How To Case Study Case Studies 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. That way, when you do need to “tabulate the consequence of a particular decision,” such as, whether or not to launch a new product or shut down a factory, you have the tools to do so.

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Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This exercise will also likely provide job leads, he says. You can reduce the stress of finding a new position after a job loss by making sure you’re eating well , exercising , and getting plenty of sleep. Case Study #1: Devise a plan for talking about your old job and what you want out of your next.

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Cover Letters Case Interview How To Interviews 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

” There are real risks involved in not distributing the workload in an equitable way, says Julie Morgenstern, productivity expert and author of Never Check E-Mail in the Morning. This exercise also helps you discover any gaps in talent—“You might have 10 outfielders and no one at first base,” says Morgenstern.

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Talent Case Study Case Studies Management 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2016

To give an example of just how hard it can be to prevent this from happening, let’s consider the case of Nokia. The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. The senior team was able to more effectively prioritize the use of their time.

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Company Sales Retail Engineering 28

Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Do product developers every transpose style codes or prices in a product spec sheet? Read about how Fujitsu Services in the UK did terrific work with lean thinking in a call center (full case study here , and more digestible summary here. The simple exercise of focused observation will help you see the waste.

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Engineering Benchmarking Meeting Case Study 133

Clarity Consultants

JULY 5, 2023

In today’s dynamic corporate world, training programs enhance employee skills, boost productivity, and drive organizational success. These methods can include group discussions, case studies, role-plays, simulations, hands-on activities, and real-world scenarios.

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Training Training Case Study Case Studies 62

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Case studies. Selling productized consulting. As a consultant, your product is your advice. He said he did a quick Internet search for ‘ag equipment product design’ and we were in the top few results. Case Studies. Your case studies demonstrate how you take them to their desired future state.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

The skills most frequently mentioned as crucial during early stages include product design and development, pitching, and assembling a founding team. ” Customer discovery and user-centered product design skills are paramount. As one respondent said, “Nothing else matters if you are building a product that no one wants.”

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Engineering Survey Finance Recruiting 46

Melissa Agnes

MAY 14, 2015

However, after experiencing this process, I highly recommend this exercise to every communication professional out there. However, creating the title is also a great exercise to keep your speech focused and on track. Creating my title. The first step was to create the title of my talk. This in itself was an interesting process.

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How To Exercises Conference Course 74

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Here, I’ll outline new research and case studies that help us understand digital nudging even more deeply: Case One: The Power of Framing an Email. When you visit Amazon.com, the website offers you a curated list of products based on your preferences and needs. What’s the best way to nudge people to exercise?

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Tools Financial Education Study 37

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Case Study: Blue Apron. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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Methodologies How To Metrics Sales 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like. The outcomes of this exercise are shown in the exhibits below.

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Benchmarking Government Policies Case Study 36

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In fact, he says, learning how to talk about politics in a productive manner can help you “manage other difficult conversations at work ,” including peer performance reviews or disagreements over strategy and policy. Trying to change the other person’s mind is often an exercise in futility, according to Davey.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Exercises 28