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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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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. However, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk survey found that the average remote worker spent nine hours a week doing other tasks during work schedules besides working. more days every month, or 16.8

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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

While in the UK, the Labour Force Survey found that 11.7 As an owner’s ability to perform suffers due to stress, the management of the business can deteriorate. Thanks to technological advancements, this is now very cost effective with companies like Process Street or SweetProcess specialising in standardising operating procedures.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Another hidden back-end cost of unstable schedules was the inordinate amount of time managers spent on the schedule: one manager of a large store decreased time spent from three days to four hours.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. And if so, how?

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