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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Management and Oversight Challenges: Managers and employers may find it challenging to effectively foster teamwork.

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

Asamby Consulting

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. Hire or train an operations manager or COO Another obvious alternative is to recruit an operations manager or Chief Operating Officer.

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Harvard’s Arthur C. Brooks on the Secrets to Happiness at Work

Harvard Business

Brooks is a bestselling author, Harvard University professor, and a widely read columnist for The Atlantic, whose writing draws from both science and philosophy and is aimed at providing insight and strategies on how we can live our best lives.

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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Since consulting firms still utilize an “up or out” policy, this creates space for new recruits even during a period of economic downturn. Kearney and other firms have operations in the country and a variety of services are offered in strategy, management, digital, HR, financial services, public sector, energy, and healthcare.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

When a platform strategy requires mixing the digital and the physical, the area of differentiation lies in service delivery in the physical world. Recruit Holdings started out in the 1960s as an advertising company that published magazines for job seekers. This is a subtle but important distinction. job websites Indeed and Glassdoor.)

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Stop Letting Email Control Your Work Day

Harvard Business

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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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

What might happen to the various cycle times? Managers make decisions faster. Everyone's cycle time decreases. If you need resilience in product development, you might need resilience in: How you recruit and hire. Your approach to organizational strategy. The feedback loops get shorter.

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