Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

I have also found that this habit of time tracking acts as a tool to help me batch tasks (i.e. Manage your tasks. During any given workday your time will likely be spent on a combination of: Independently working. Traveling and eating. Traveling and eating. Manage your energy. Attending meetings.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

At Thrive Global, that was our thinking for why we created Thrive Away, our vacation email tool. And then — the most important part — the tool deletes the email. A few summers ago I was able to try out a proto-version of Thrive Away, which at the time was an email tool we were developing for HuffPost.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

For most people, the goal is to adopt the smallest number of tools necessary to work efficiently. That’s why my friends and colleagues often ask me which technologies I regard as must-haves: the tools and tactics that will make a big impact on their productivity without spending a lot of time or money getting up and running.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

A great possibility to travel. It is not unusual that consultants will travel to other countries to work on projects. Sending invoices and getting paid on time. Getting paid on time is therefore up to you. When you’re employed through Qemploy, your time registration and invoicing go through the platform – easy and simple.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

While some aspects of care clearly require doctor and patient to be in the same place at the same time, many demonstrably don’t. Historically, health insurers did not have tools necessary to identify and act on the difference between care that is worth it and care that isn’t. A Way Forward.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

I travel to them, and then back again, in the middle of my work days. I realized that what I needed was a practical way to get more work done without taking more time. Because in my first year as a full-time author, I actually started feeling my productivity slipping — even though I had quit my full-time job.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

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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