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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? I also interviewed the partners and a cross section of employees to better understand the anchors on raising Aristide’s productivity. Do your specialists waste time on clerical work? When productivity starts to slide, it’s not always easy to pinpoint the cause. Dig deeper.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

The first step in the process is to solicit feedback from all the people in your organization who interviewed the candidate, according to Claman. It’s also important to set the stage for a “constructive conversation,” says Fernández-Aráoz. Here are some tips to make the most of reference checks. Seek input.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

From digital platforms to customer experience to crisis management , these priorities have been a bellwether for what would soon dominate boardroom discussions and headline business publications. “The amount of time management teams are spending reacting to dramatic changes in the world is unprecedented.

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Hold Onto The Bright Bits… the art of Eulogy Writing

Confessions of a Consultant

She’d been sick for some time and the doctors were close to ‘calling it a day.’ Playing golf over a weekend, we had plenty of spare time. But just as the newspapers have draft eulogies for high-profile figures – he wanted to be prepared when the time came. There might be a big market for that service. What do you think?