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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Small Breaks During a Busy Workday

Harvard Business

Many people operate from the belief that there’s too much to do and they can’t afford to pause during their workday. In this article, the author outlines eight strategies to try to build more breaks into your day. But taking effective breaks is essential to preventing burnout.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Is a COO-as-a-service solution right for me?

Asamby Consulting

Why do I need operations help? All this comes down to one thing: More work in managing the company. At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems. You can unsubscribe at any time. You run a successful business.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

At the same time, management consultants will generally be brought in to look at the viability of the business, from a strategic and operational perspective. Table 1 – Framework for validating an M&A deal from a strategic and operational perspective. Image: Pexels.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% The results were striking. We hope not.

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Common New Manager Challenges to Prepare For

LSA Global

Can your managers co-create a compelling future vision and plan with their teams? Creating the Right Performance Environment High performing people managers create connections. High performing managers operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously.