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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Indeed, a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management indicates that fifteen percent of companies offer a 32-hour workweek.

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Consultant Ninja: The Secrecy of Management Consulting.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. The Secrecy of Management Consulting. Perhaps the work of management consultants is a lot more empirical, and too contextual to a specific (client) situation.

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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. The app will send you a simple daily prompt asking you about what you are grateful for, and it stores your responses in a private online journal. Emmons, R.

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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

In both cases, any new leader must manage intense exposure (as it sinks in that top leaders have few places to escape to) and unrealistic expectations (of both self and others). The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. You and Your Team Series. Resilience.

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25 ideas to help you set good goals in 2025

Halo Psych

Create FAST goals If you manage a team and are setting goals with each of them, then FAST goals might be helpful. An article from MIT Sloan Management Review suggests that while SMART goals can be helpful, they tend not to include ambitions within the framework, nor are they explicitly set up to encourage regular discussion about the goal.

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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Preparing organizations to handle change both efficiently and sustainably requires a systematic approach. link] Kotter, J. Leading change.

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Just Get to the Point: Top to Bottom Communication

Tom Spencer

The myth holds that the reason for this style of writing was that, in the early days of journal editing, paragraphs and news sections which did not fit the page were simply trimmed. Conforming to these conditions, many analysts make an efficiency trim by adopting the top-to-bottom structure in their writing and speech.