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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department. In working with the Boston Consulting Group, Harvard’s Leslie Perlow found that implementing “predictable time off” (i.e.,

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

But while an app to manage one’s care may initially seem like fun, the novelty (and effectiveness) wears off quickly. In one pilot in our clinics, we gave patients with poorly controlled diabetes and high blood pressure free wireless devices to measure their blood pressure and blood sugars and asked them to use them each day.

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