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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Harvard Business

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. Starting a task means you’ll continue to process it — and this makes you more likely to resume the work later on.

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Evidence That Minorities Perform Worse Under Biased Managers

Harvard Business

When identical resumes — one with the name Emily and one with the name Lakisha, for example — are sent to job openings, Emily’s resume gets substantially more callbacks. In our study, managers may have been uncomfortable interacting with minority workers, so they simply spent less time managing them.