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How to Get Your Side Hustle Off the Ground

Harvard Business

The first step, as articulated in the Lean Startup methodology, should always be to run a small, inexpensive test to see if there’s preliminary interest (a “ minimum viable product ”). Time management issues. Instead, it’s more commonly a problem of managing the time we do have.

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Although curriculum-based training — classroom-type courses typically focused on a selling methodology and activities like time management — has its place, it should only be treated as a foundation. Salespeople must learn about strategy and sales tasks at your firm, not only a generic sales methodology.

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Most Managers Don’t Know How to Coach People. But They Can Learn.

Harvard Business

Recently, my colleagues and I conducted a study that shows that most managers don’t understand what coaching really is — and that also sheds light on how to fix the problem. This research project is still in progress, but we wanted to offer a glimpse into our methodology and initial findings.

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Until You Have Productivity Skills, Productivity Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business

But once I had, I realized how much the software and gadgets helped me to kick my productivity into high gear. But the truth is, it wasn’t the tools alone, it was also the workflow management process —or methodology—I applied to the tools. In all cases, learning to use the tool is a by-product.

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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges

Epicflow

At the same time, managing large projects with globally distributed teams and material resources is rather challenging – they are miles away, but a project/resource manager has to keep track of all of them and make sure they are allocated to the right tasks. 5 Tips on How to Address Challenges in Automotive Projects.

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Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. They’re Not.

Harvard Business

Recently, my colleagues and I conducted a study that shows that most managers don’t understand what coaching really is — and that also sheds light on how to fix the problem. This research project is still in progress, but we wanted to offer a glimpse into our methodology and initial findings.

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A Refresher on A/B Testing

Harvard Business

To better understand what A/B testing is, where it originated, and how to use it, I spoke with Kaiser Fung, who founded the applied analytics program at Columbia University and is author of Junk Charts , a blog devoted to the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media. How Do Companies Use A/B Testing?

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