Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Inspired by a colleague, the time management expert Laura Vanderkam , I decided to spend the month of February tracking exactly how I spent my time, down to half-hour increments. In particular, there were four that made me rethink a lot of the conventional wisdom on productivity and time management.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. This includes project management software, communication tools, document sharing platforms, and virtual collaboration tools.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. Leaders can help establish new cultural norms around time and make clear that everyone’s time is a precious resource.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water. Covey’s time management matrix is a good tool for this.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Archive important sensitive documents such as contracts in your preferred client folder system such as Dropbox and Evernote. Reply only if needed to prevent volleyball communication and discard email. Place all date sensitive emails on your calendar and discard email.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

To me, having intact units work the same reduced schedule seems to be a smarter strategy than having a few 30-hour employees mixed in with more-than-full-time employees. It is well documented that, like my friend, employees who work formal alternate schedules tend to be stigmatized. It may be best to have firm boundaries.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

When my colleagues and I recently tested the following five strategies with a group of 26 managers, the percentage who said they were “effective” at making a clean break between work and home jumped from 40% to 68%. Make a short phone call, sign a document, or respond to an email.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Although this may sound like a simple holiday anecdote, when different cultural definitions of “on time” spill over to professional projects, people’s reactions can be less than jovial. But not understanding or effectively managing these different ways of working can lead to frustration, stress, and missed deadlines.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

60% of the people in the same study indicated that being able to see others and share documents live made the discussion more open. That helps companies avoid pitfalls that can occur when people are less candid and don’t share their perspectives on how to best address issues.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Over the long term, establishing backups for each role and codifying processes through knowledge management make it easier for any one person to be away with the confidence that their job will be in good hands.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 8, 2021

In order to do my job, I have to watch everyone on the screen, read the Chat stream, check my back-channel text group, refer to documents on my desk and on my desktop, all while monitoring the kids’ at-home schooling, the soup on the stove, and the dogs wanting to be let out or in. I guess mindfulness just isn’t for me.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

Here are the must-haves: Evernote: Sure, I can spend a couple of minutes checking my email while you go digging through your hard drive, looking for that document you know is there somewhere. Yet even though many people use Google Docs on occasion, sharing Word documents is still too often the default.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. However, McKinsey is more focused on your critical thinking skills and what you display during that time rather than how quickly you can complete each task. The first is a constrained optimization mini-game.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. By telling people not to expect an instant reply, you buy yourself some time to focus, while reassuring them that you will pay attention — later. Document and communicate progress. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Srini Pillay.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

You then become so afraid of forgetting to do some small task – like sending an email or forwarding a document – that you start to do everything as soon as you’ve thought of it; but then you end up getting sucked into your overflowing inbox before you know it. ” So you must also learn to control internal factors.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Our deep reservoir of qualitative data — we did check-ins with participating store managers every two weeks, as well as surveys — gave us a detailed looked into the hidden costs of unstable scheduling, and how a move towards scheduling stability decreased them.

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