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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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Innovation Tips For Successful Entrepreneurs

Tom Spencer

Innovation transcends product development. It also touches on other areas like management, strategy, sales, and marketing. The innovation must align with the business’s broader strategy in order to ensure success. Innovation can be used to develop your business strategy, but it is not a strategy in its own right.

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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Kearney and other firms have operations in the country and a variety of services are offered in strategy, management, digital, HR, financial services, public sector, energy, and healthcare. Consultants should expect their time management skills to be tested and sharpened. BCG, McKinsey, Bain, A.T.

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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business

Many people fail on their professional development goals for the year because they take on a lot of goals — goals that they feel they “should” do but ultimately don’t energize them. For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal.

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Meetings That Work for Both Managers and Makers

Harvard Business

.” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. Managers, on the other hand, are the leaders who integrate across disciplines and serve as the interface between customer needs and the organization’s strategy.

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Stop Scheduling Conference Calls and Finally Commit to Videoconferencing

Harvard Business

The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved. I’d rather spend 45 minutes working through a video conference with a CEO or GM than have a two-hour traditional conference call. Engagement and Understanding Improve.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business

For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias.