Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. A Microsoft study found that it takes people an average of 15 minutes to return to an important project after an e-mail interruption.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. As a leadership coach, I work with many female leaders and managers on improving their time management skills and work-life balance. I’ve changed their names and some details.)

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Studies indicate that participants in traditional curriculum-based training forget more than 80 percent of the information they were taught within 90 days. They must learn how other functions affect, and are affected by, selling activities: for example, product management, marketing, pre-sale application support, and post-sale service.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Below I’ve put together a list of tips to help leaders of all kinds be deliberate with their choices, based largely on my years advising startup founders on product, marketing, and management at Google Ventures — and my subsequent work studying and experimenting with personal time-management techniques for my book Make Time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

This frees up your time so that you can spend it where it is really valuable. Attending physicians delegate to residents, senior consultants to junior consultants, and CMOs to their marketing directors. Sloan and the recommendation of countless management professors, “ manage by exception.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

That causes its own problems — one study showed the average employee attends a whopping 62 meetings per month — but logistically, it’s not that much of a problem. Their employees are either on-site or can be conferenced in, so a 90-minute meeting takes 90 minutes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Let’s say an interview or speech to 100 doctors or real estate experts would require preparation in an area you’ve never fully studied before. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus. Srini Pillay.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Consequently read, study, and apply the comprehensive concepts described here. Time Constraints: Managers often have heavy workloads and may feel overwhelmed by their day-to-day responsibilities. As a result, they may not prioritize coaching or allocate sufficient time to it. Coaching requires time and effort.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Management teams are responsible for making sense of complex questions. Maybe it’s estimating how much a market will grow next year, or finding the best strategy to beat a competitor. In a second study, we asked 164 U.S. We ran a final study to test this interpretation. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. We asked 401 U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Our goal, in a randomized controlled experiment at Gap, was to shift retail associates to more-stable schedules and study the business results. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

During the 2009 recession, I took a high-profile job with a marketing agency. The clients were big, the pay was excellent, and given the economic climate at the time, I considered myself lucky. On the surface, it looked like a dream opportunity. No, the work didn’t excite me, but what would people think if I turned it down?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

A classic 1998 Stanford University study accurately predicted that by 2020 advances in technology will have eliminated many lower to mid-level jobs. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

Case Study #1: Propose a pilot and then ace it by being responsive and productive. Two years ago, when Mark Scott took the job as chief marketing officer at Apixio, a digitized medical records company, he knew that his commute would be bad. “I lead the marketing team, and I am on the executive team,” he says.

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