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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. The same is true of employees at Tower Paddle Boards (at least during the summer months) and Collins SBA , a financial advisory firm in Australia.

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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Whether you're the CEO or a frontline leader, financial performance is a measure of effectiveness. Leadership & Organization Development Journal , 32(2), 127-149. SA Journal of Human Resource Management , 19(2), e1-e13. One key is self-awareness. & Brown, F. Goldstein, G., & Deluca, J. Gorgens-Ekermans, G., &

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Why We Procrastinate When We Have Long Deadlines

Harvard Business

In a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research , my colleagues Rajesh Bagchi and Stefan Hock and I demonstrate that longer deadlines can lead workers to think an assignment is harder than it actually is, which causes them to commit more resources to the work.

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Don’t Call It the “End of the Siesta”: What Spain’s New Work Hours Really Mean

Harvard Business

This study will be published soon in Leadership & Organizational Development Journal. A sample of 2,388 middle managers reported their senior managers’ beliefs about work-family balance by answering questions on a sliding scale about the extent to which important decision makers.