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Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

Direct link to the application and formal job ad: [link] As part of a recently-funded US National Science Foundation project in which we will be building an online virtual interviewing platform, my laboratory will be hiring a part-time project manager with work to do for roughly the next two years.

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Meetings That Work for Both Managers and Makers

Harvard Business

This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” ” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. Please do not disturb.”

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

When you’re hiring a new manager, the stakes are high. You need someone who can effectively lead people, manage a budget, liaise with upper management — and, usually, do it all from day one. Would you hire or promote a star player into a management role if they’ve never managed anyone?

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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 the longest time, these two ideas have sat on opposite sides of a very deep chasm. He was firmly of the view that things that took longer to make were more valuable than those that took less time.

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Why My Company Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees

Harvard Business

In other words, two software developers always work together. So let’s say Developer A is typing, and Developer B gets an idea. Instead of handing over the keyboard and mouse, Developer A simply stops typing and lifts their hands. Developer B starts typing immediately. It’s a rule. That’s not me.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

If you get the answers mostly correct but you used a systematic process to arrive at your answers, the algorithm will be able to detect that you used a logically disciplined approach, and that you would clearly get the right answer with more time and a few more iterations of your logical-reasoning process. And the third is cause vs. effect.

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Productivity Tips for People Who Hate Productivity Tips

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Your body can provide you with important cues to optimally manage your focus. While it may not be easy, managing your focus can and should be self-affirming and fulfilling. Therefore, it makes sense to engineer your workflow for ease and progress.