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Solve Your Project Problems in Less Time

PM Alliance

It’s imperative that you have tools in place to identify problems quickly. Your controls process must be working well, and your team needs a unified methodology to ensure everyone knows how to translate the metrics and other data coming in from stakeholders.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. However, McKinsey is more focused on your critical thinking skills and what you display during that time rather than how quickly you can complete each task. The first is a constrained optimization mini-game.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

Finkelstein says you can ask directly or use a 360 tool to assess how you’re doing. 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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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

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. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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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? Can the employee use (or learn) these tech tools needed for telecommuting?

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