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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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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Productivity and Creativity – awkward bedfellows or birds of a feather?

Ben de Haldevang

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. You’ll find the link here. Click here for the link.

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The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time

Rick Conlow

They give you clues to what’s going on in organizations, and the potential impact of The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time. A time management study by Theodore Barry and Associates showed that 40-50% of employee time is unproductive! supported by Olympic champion’s training regimens.

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

Like in most lines of work, soft skills are critical to your success as an independent consultant, perhaps even more so. So, the first step is to be aware that soft skills can be trained like any other, then you just need to know how it can be done. Your soft skills and personal approach can make or break a good deal.

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Book Recommendation: Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes

Kai Davis

All of which are very relevant to the work I do today, the products I create, and the articles and tips I share on my newsletter ( [link] ). Time management secrets of billionaires. Instituting higher standards and regular training. Value-added sales messaging. The importance of using market data in your sales messaging.

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Is a COO-as-a-service solution right for me?

Asamby Consulting

Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems.