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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 me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. You’ll find the link here.

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Transitioning to Consulting: The Changing Value of Your Time

Tom Spencer

This will help you practice being a consultant and improve your time management skills before graduation. Time Commitments in Graduate School. Many things vie for the time and attention of a graduate student. Time Commitments in Consulting. In academia, you exchange your time for research papers and projects.

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

Asamby Consulting

Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems. If you don’t, delegate it to them.

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Stress and decreased engagement are just two reasons we need to stop scheduling back-to-back meetings

Brimstone Consulting

“What makes this study so powerful and relatable is that we’re effectively visualizing for people what they experience phenomenologically inside,” says Michael Bohan, senior director of Microsoft’s Human Factors Engineering group. It’s not an abstraction — quite the opposite.

Meeting 53
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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

When productivity starts to slide, it’s not always easy to pinpoint the cause. 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.

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The Case for the 6-Hour Workday

Harvard Business

.” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. 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. Some Things Are Worth Fighting For.

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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.”

Meeting 36