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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.

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

Asamby Consulting

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. Think of the COO or operations manager as the execution engine to your strategic decisions. The beauty is that you can define the role rather freely.

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Why My Company Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees

Harvard Business

Our approach is rooted in extreme programming and agile processes , and the foundation of our work environment is a pair programming culture. This kind of collaboration means that there’s always two people available to help solve an engineering problem. I wake up at 8 AM, barely enough time to shower and catch the subway.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

We found widespread agreement that having great products and services and being a “good corporate citizen” are table stakes in a world of empowered citizens and consumers. “The amount of time management teams are spending reacting to dramatic changes in the world is unprecedented.