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Making Your Products Accessible to Underserved Markets

Harvard Business

Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies. Management leaders need a clearly defined Side of the Pyramid (SoP) strategy to optimize the available opportunities and develop more inclusive products and services.

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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own). All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department.

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8 Tips for Running a Productive Virtual Meeting

Tom Spencer

In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. Setting the right time frame can really help to make your meeting more productive by reducing the likelihood of getting off track. Get a presentation buddy or co-host. Share your objective and agenda ahead of time.

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Surveilling Employees Erodes Trust — and Puts Managers in a Bind

Harvard Business

There’s a growing movement to track employee productivity through increasingly sophisticated technology, such as desktop surveillance, biometric smart badges, location tracking, or desk heat sensors. New research suggests that when information obtained through monitoring is used for control purposes (e.g.,

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How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1)

Johanna Rothman

This week, I want to finish these things: 5 presentations, one of which I need to finish today. A book is much larger than a presentation. I suspect at least one of the presentations will take more time than the novella. When that occurs, I don't use a backlog or create iterations. Instead, I use continuous flow. I work in flow.

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Quick Guide to a Career in Product Design

Tom Spencer

Product design is more creative than engineering, more practical than art, and more hands-on than graphic design Product design is a field that involves the creation and development of new products or product improvements. What Do Product Designers Do?

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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. Management Science. One emotion that often defines work is stress.