Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

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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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 14, 2020

The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever. Tim Wentworth, President Cigna Services, cites vigilant time management as one of the keys to his success as the leader of a major organization.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. That allows the sales associates to focus on serving customers rather than wasting time and energy managing transactions. This creates a dilemma for leaders. Redesign Jobs. ” she continues.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

You can look for these scheduling holes serendipitously, or deliberately schedule in a half-hour of grunt work every day, perhaps at the end of the workday, when most professionals’ energy is waning and your ability to do creative thinking has tapered off. Finally, you could procrastinate strategically.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

Even if you don’t like seeing yourself on the screen, consider how this powerful tool might increase productivity and effectiveness for your 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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Over the last two years, I conducted four different experiments to monitor my own behavior, implementing trackers and blockers in order to better understand how social media usage affected my productivity. Time-based internet blockers helped me increase my productivity. But each tiny posting saps energy, and that adds up.

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