Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Inspired by a colleague, the time management expert Laura Vanderkam , I decided to spend the month of February tracking exactly how I spent my time, down to half-hour increments. In particular, there were four that made me rethink a lot of the conventional wisdom on productivity and time management.

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MARCH 21, 2022

Here are 3 employee experience strategies to keep your remote and hybrid workforce engaged in 2022 while balancing a return to the office. Strategy 1: Engaging a remote workforce First, we must recognize that some of employees simply do not want to return to in-office. Don’t assume employees want it one way or another.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water. Covey’s time management matrix is a good tool for this.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. For those who have trouble keeping their focus, become bored easily, or are extroverted, a meeting-free day may be a productivity killer. Discuss your strategy with close colleagues and your boss. Step 2: Retrain Others.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

As a time management coach, I believe the best option is the final one — finding an in-between solution where you keep up on the essentials but avoid putting the full weight of multiple jobs on your shoulders. These six strategies can help you strike that delicate balance. Or is there an answer in between? Accept reality.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. Environment.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

In the midst of the summer doldrums, how can you stay motivated and actually make your time at the office count? Here are three strategies to keep in mind. That gives you more freedom to schedule uninterrupted blocks of time to tackle important projects you’ve been putting off, but which could significantly benefit your career.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Short of going off the grid, how can we build better habits around technology—preserving its benefits while minimizing the negative effects? Maura Thomas and Shawn Thomas.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Is your work time taken up by mandatory tasks that have no discernable value? Consider the iconic “TPS report,” from the cult film Office Space , an ostensibly useless administrative report whose form is far more important to the boss than its content.)

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Here are a few research-backed strategies I recommend you implement at work and at home. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Short of going off the grid, how can we build better habits around technology—preserving its benefits while minimizing the negative effects? Maura Thomas and Shawn Thomas.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

Even if you don’t like seeing yourself on the screen, consider how this powerful tool might increase productivity and effectiveness for your business. The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Chris, a senior manager at a New York design studio can’t sleep. Katrina, the production manager at a well-known publishing house is distracted by a work email at the dinner table. This five-step strategy requires minimal time and effort — about 10 -15 minutes per day in our experience.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “It takes a lot of effort on the part of a manager to show someone what that is.” What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In the flurry of statistics that exist around personal productivity, there’s one I find especially alarming : The average person is distracted or interrupted every 40 seconds when working in front of their computer. In productivity circles, this phenomenon is known as Parkinson’s law. Sarah Lawrence/Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The second is a strategy + adapting to new data mini-game. Time management is certainly a factor. Some candidates finish early, while others don’t complete it in time. To win McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve, focus on these strategies: Remember the skills being tested. And the third is cause vs. effect.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

More and more people are working remotely, and many say it improves their productivity and satisfaction — while also saving them time and money. ” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. “It proves that you can manage it.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. High-performers reported feeling “burdened” and were unhappy about others’ over-reliance on them.

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