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Recharge Your Time Management

The Clever Consultant

Running a successful consulting business means your time is spread thin. And then there’s the marketing: writing case studies to keep your kit fresh, articles or blog posts for your website, social networks to update and so on. I like to come back from time-off refreshed and recharged, feeling like I’ve got everything underfoot.

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The two executives had worked together for nearly two decades, first at a large hospital system in New Delhi and at Krisna for the past eight years.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business

Getting work done in a timely fashion can be impossible, for instance, if an employee has a steady parade of people coming by his office asking for help or advice. “Sometimes systems are outdated, or workers simply don’t know how to use the tools that they have and they need training,” says Saunders.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

Say something like, “I understand Nancy helped implement a new payroll system. Case Study #1: Solicit feedback from team members to focus your questions. “By the time we talk to references, we are fairly certain that we want to hire the candidate,” he says. .”