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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

Is the content making sense to you, or do you have some questions for further research? Taking action: take some time after each chunk to make a note of what actions you can take. Some of the ideas are not totally new but this has the most up to date research of the books we have read and sets techniques in a digital age.

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How to Know Whether You’re Giving Your Team Needless Work

Harvard Business

Is your work time taken up by mandatory tasks that have no discernable value? Consider the iconic “TPS report,” from the cult film Office Space , an ostensibly useless administrative report whose form is far more important to the boss than its content.) Illegitimate tasks make work miserable.

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4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers

Harvard Business

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Although the research is conflicting, it’s still useful.

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