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

Harvard Business

If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter. Something that helps me is travel, especially taking flights alone.

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Making Time for Networking as a Working Parent

Harvard Business

Here’s the challenge: networks often seem to grow during after-hours activities, like after-work drinks, weekend off-sites, or far-away conferences. How do you meet new people if traveling to conferences is out of the question? Use business travel wisely. And that poses a problem for most working parents.

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The 8 Digital Productivity Tools Everyone Should Adopt

Harvard Business

Doodle: Oh, to see the end of email threads ensnarling us in long, painful conversations about how to schedule that group conference call! Doodle eliminates those threads by polling people on their available call or meeting windows, so you can arrive at a mutually convenient time without endless back-and-forth.

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Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week

Harvard Business

I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days. I now have research calls and phone interviews; lunches with literary agents and web developers; conference calls about book titles and publishing schedules; and radio interviews and media prep calls. Hayon Thapaliya/DUCEPT Pascal/ hemis.fr/Getty Getty Images.

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