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Don’t Call It the “End of the Siesta”: What Spain’s New Work Hours Really Mean

Harvard Business

This study will be published soon in Leadership & Organizational Development Journal. A sample of 2,388 middle managers reported their senior managers’ beliefs about work-family balance by answering questions on a sliding scale about the extent to which important decision makers.

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. You’re hardly alone. So, what can you do?

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