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Business Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week

Management Consulted

This is not your typical time management book. It would be wise to go through all of your belongings and get rid of the clothing, furniture, toys, books/magazines, etc. Top 5 myths about travel as a management consultant. Why read it? In fact, it dives deeper than that. A life less complex is totally achievable.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. Recruit Holdings started out in the 1960s as an advertising company that published magazines for job seekers.

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How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business

.” If that’s not quite enough of a push, Lars Bastholm, global CCO at Google, offers a tip: “I used to tell creatives who were stuck on a brief to go to the magazine store and buy three magazines that they’d never in a million years buy.

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. As a result, they may not prioritize coaching or allocate sufficient time to it.

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How to Work Remotely Without Losing Motivation

Harvard Business

Walk around the neighborhood, go to the post office or dry cleaner, deliver a stack of old magazines to a hospital waiting room. I’m talking about exercise for sanity and productivity — making an effort so taxing that it wipes your mind clean. Make up an errand if you have to. Weather be damned; I’m on it every day.

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How to Beat Procrastination

Harvard Business

For example, you might allow yourself to read lowbrow magazines or books when you’re at the gym, because the guilty pleasure helps dilute your brain’s perception of the short-term “cost” of exercising. In other words, tie the task that we’re avoiding to something that we’re not avoiding.

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How to Stay Focused If You’re Assigned to Multiple Projects at Once

Harvard Business

In theory, this system of “multiteaming” offers a number of upsides: You can deploy your expertise exactly where and when it’s most needed, share your knowledge across groups, and switch projects during lull times, avoiding costly downtime. Magazine Article. Further Reading. The Overcommitted Organization.

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