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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Time Tracking For Consultants: Increase Your Productivity, Profitability, & Fees

Consulting Success

Whether you are using an hourly rate or not, there are times that you should and should not be thinking. Time Tracking For Consultants: Increase Your Productivity, Profitability, & Fees is a post from: Consulting Success.

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How to Eliminate the Whirlwind & Increase Productivity

Rick Conlow

And what does all of this have to do with managing others? 2 Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. As a manager, even though you have a million things on your plate, it is your responsibility to know and understand what is occupying your team’s time. (No, So, where do we draw the line?

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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. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. There’s certainly some truth to that argument.

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I'm Teaching an Open-Enrollment Time Management Class on Apr 17-18

Markovitz Consulting

I’m teaching (via Zoom) a time/workflow management class at the Stanford Continuing Studies Program on Apr 17-18. The material is adapted from my Shingo Research Award-winning book, A Factory of One , which shows you how to apply lean production principles to individual knowledge work.

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How to Protect Your Boundaries When Your Company Is Struggling

Harvard Business

In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run. Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization.

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Are You Productive Enough?

Harvard Business

Productive: “Achieving or producing a significant amount of result.” ” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” I’m also familiar with the fact that individuals fall on a productivity spectrum.