Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After one extended trip abroad during which he avoided email, he wrote that he had missed a large number of critical messages, including a fulfillment center crisis that caused him to lose more than 20% of monthly orders for his business, media interview opportunities that had expired, and more than a dozen partnership offers.

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Case Interview Fashion Energy Efficiency 47

Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In the flurry of statistics that exist around personal productivity, there’s one I find especially alarming : The average person is distracted or interrupted every 40 seconds when working in front of their computer. In productivity circles, this phenomenon is known as Parkinson’s law. Sarah Lawrence/Getty Images.

Strategy 48

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Chemicals 48

Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I now have research calls and phone interviews; lunches with literary agents and web developers; conference calls about book titles and publishing schedules; and radio interviews and media prep calls. I realized that what I needed was a practical way to get more work done without taking more time. But I was wrong.

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