Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

The first type is commonly known as time-management planning, which involves making to-do lists, prioritizing and scheduling tasks, and ultimately managing one’s time. We found that employees’ use of time-management planning had strong positive effects on their daily engagement and daily productivity.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Recent research I conducted along with Dylan Glover and William Pariente, forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, attempts to address this gap. We find that when managers hold negative beliefs, even unconscious ones, about minority workers, minority employees perform much worse than they do with unbiased bosses.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

While hard skills such as data mining rank consistently high, the greatest skill gaps are in the areas of leadership, communication, collaboration and time management. In general, technical skills, given the basic intelligence required, are a ticket to play the game and can be learned fairly quickly and easily.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

To answer these questions, I spoke to researchers, and spent time digging through dozens of academic journal articles. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. How can we overcome it, preferably without hating ourselves or the techniques we use in the process? Why we procrastinate. Srini Pillay.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. Anticipate and Manage Feelings of Anxiety.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

This line of thinking represents a significant shift, from viewing work-life issues as private concerns to recognizing that managers play a critical role. A mounting body of research shows just how much influence managers have. This study will be published soon in Leadership & Organizational Development Journal.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Maybe that’s why, according to research published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life , we tend to experience more happiness before our trip rather than after. It can be a challenge — and a bit of a rude awakening — to return from vacation and get a handle on all you’ve missed.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

The power of our devices, even when they’re just silently sitting there, was confirmed recently by a study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. According to the same study, half of senior leaders believe vacation is encouraged by their company culture, but only 30% of non-managers say the same thing.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

If you always have it nearby, a pop-up notification (possibly accompanied by an alert sound) may be your most reliable trigger, whether it’s your phone’s reminder function or your preferred task manager or calendar app. Many of these systems sync between devices, so you’ll see your notifications in as many places as you can.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2017

Our findings were published in the journal Psychological Science. My lab recently conducted a series of experiments to test what “leisure first” really feels like — and we found that it’s not nearly as worrisome as it seems.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

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. Can productivity still be wrangled? Our results suggest yes.

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