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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Starting a task means you’ll continue to process it — and this makes you more likely to resume the work later on. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus. Srini Pillay. William Treseder. Maura Thomas.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. After all, she says, the goal with any reference check is to “go beyond simply verifying facts” on a resume.