Tom Spencer

JUNE 13, 2021

They are temporary responses to the pandemic, rather than trends that will become part of normal operations after the COVID pandemic comes to an end. One trending area is data science and so it would be advisable for aspiring consultants to be familiar with the field. BCG, McKinsey, Bain, A.T.

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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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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

Job Trends. Job Trends. For instance, you have consulting within Business Strategy, Marketing, IT, Management and so on. Since you have the option of being part of many different projects in a fairly short period of time, you get the option of progressing more quickly than the rest of the peers in your industry.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. As with anything that matters in the workplace, the key to vacation compliance is to measure it and manage it. So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it? Don’t ignore it.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. How can we manage human capital better?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Nearly all leaders (96%) claimed they lacked time for strategic thinking, again, because they were too busy putting out fires.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

This trend holds true among employees within the same organization (since different teams and departments often have different flexibility policies). Employees without access to flexibility are twice as likely to report being dissatisfied at work, and half of employees say they would leave their company if offered a more flexible alternative.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

More travel means less advance booking in general; gender differences erode to virtually no difference for road warriors who travel more than 20 times a year. Some of these trends can be explained. The older any traveler gets, man or woman, the earlier they book, but women at every age group book earlier than men.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

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. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been.

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Data Management Real Estate Transportation 36

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call. While some aspects of care clearly require doctor and patient to be in the same place at the same time, many demonstrably don’t.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

.” Bleisure travel has received considerable attention lately, with some traveler surveys suggesting that as many as 6 out of 10 people have tacked on personal time to a business trip. Hospitality and destination management professionals can use data like this to better anticipate and meet the needs of business travelers.

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