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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Time Tracking For Consultants: Increase Your Productivity, Profitability, & Fees

Consulting Success

As a consultant, should you be tracking your time? The latest data from our consulting industry study showed that 58% of consultants use an hourly rate or project rate (based on hours). Whether you are using an hourly rate or not, there are times that you should and should not be thinking. If so, how?

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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. There’s certainly some truth to that argument.

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Productivity Boost for Consultants

Consulting Success

Productivity Boost for Consultants is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Recharge Your Time Management

The Clever Consultant

Yet, I hate the feeling of not being productive. Running a successful consulting business means your time is spread thin. Every six months or so, I take the time to re-read time management books, review my workload and consider ways to more effective. Notice I didn’t say “productive”. That’s a fact.

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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own). All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department.

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I'm Teaching an Open-Enrollment Time Management Class on Apr 17-18

Markovitz Consulting

I’m teaching (via Zoom) a time/workflow management class at the Stanford Continuing Studies Program on Apr 17-18. The material is adapted from my Shingo Research Award-winning book, A Factory of One , which shows you how to apply lean production principles to individual knowledge work.