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Mental Energy Units

CaseInterview.com

When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric. There are 24 hours in a day.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

“If there is a serious concern, it’s best to have an open door policy.” With that information, he put together personalized development plans that included a “small customized reading list” on key management topics, such as giving feedback and time management.

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4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers

Harvard Business

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? And it could make your employees happier, thanks to greater flexibility and less travel time.

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