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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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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

With your new-found free time upon securing a job, consider learning a new skill or two. Pursue a minor in entrepreneurship or management, complete a certificate in sustainability, or take a physical education class. You can talk to your manager to see if they will let you start early on a part-time or remote basis.

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Is a COO-as-a-service solution right for me?

Asamby Consulting

All this comes down to one thing: More work in managing the company. Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. Or you train someone in your team to take over that role. Want to hire an operations manager?

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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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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? Take for example the case of my recent client, an engineering consulting company I’ll call Astride. It was clear that the firm needed to make more investment in engineering design software. But, and this is the tricky bit for senior managers, there’s no turning back.

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The Case for the 6-Hour Workday

Harvard Business

A study by scientists at Advanced Brain Monitoring also found that being in flow cut the time it took to train novice marksmen up to an expert level in half. Test: A lot of time is wasted in paralysis analysis and on over-investing in the wrong things. Start: Do whatever it takes to start your engine.

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Why My Company Serves Free Breakfast to All Employees

Harvard Business

There’s no break in flow or train of thought. This kind of collaboration means that there’s always two people available to help solve an engineering problem. I’m not quite as motivated (in terms of my fitness) or organized (in terms of my time management). Developer B starts typing immediately.

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