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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter. Having strategies for making quicker decisions can help too. So, what can you do?

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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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Are Chore Wars at Home Holding You Back at Work?

Harvard Business

. “I would feel like I was being selfish by spending that time on my career — for example, by staying late at the office to finish an important project — rather than doing something I knew needed to be done around the house,” she told me. Figure out your own form of “marriage insurance.”

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Why Consulting: The 2019 Ultimate Guide

QEmploy

For instance, you have consulting within Business Strategy, Marketing, IT, Management and so on. So what about VISA, insurance, tax registration etc.? Marketing and Sales strategy. Growth Strategy. Product Strategy and Launch. The survey was made in January 2019 and is carried out each year at the same time.

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How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours — and Why That Matters for Your Health

Harvard Business

Michael, the director of strategy for an American insurance company, does not work as much as Hanna. But even though he works an average of 45 hours a week, and is single with no kids, he has a hard time “switching off” and unwinding from his job – he is constantly checking his email and worrying about work.

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