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Be Strategic About Your Time
Time management Digital ArticleIn the frantic buzz of most managerial lives, I see people running from meeting to meeting, consulting their BlackBerrys as though in prayer, desperately working into the night to cope with a deluge of emails and otherwise being busy, busy, busy. The dilemma of all this activity, however, is that it is for the most […] -
Manage Your Human Sigma
Performance indicators Magazine ArticleWhen the Gallup Organization applied Six Sigma principles to sales and service groups at several companies, it learned how much performance variation exists between seemingly similar work groups. Managing that variability can raise overall performance by orders of magnitude and can create organic growth. -
Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
The More Time We Spend Online, the Less Time We Spend Working
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Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
Delegating Magazine ArticleThe burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them. -
Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate
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Fueling Positive Emotions in a World Gone Mad
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIf there is anything this nasty, fear-driven, dispiriting political season has demonstrated, it's that no politician - Democrat, Republican, or otherwise... -
Look to Consumers to Increase Productivity
Personal productivity Magazine ArticleWhen productivity is a problem in manufacturing, managers turn to the R&D department or operations for help. In services, however, especially ones where there is a lot of contact with the customer, such in-house groups cannot by themselves improve productivity. Because services involve the customer in production, are labor intensive, and are time-bound, consumer behavior […] -
The Marshmallow Test for Grownups
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How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day
Time management Digital ArticleResearch shows how to make messaging more efficient. -
Faced with Distraction, We Need Willpower
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMustering willpower is a struggle for almost everyone - and it's getting harder. We, as individuals and as a society, lack self-control at precisely the... -
The Case for Investing More in People
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The Trouble with CFOs
Leadership Magazine ArticleIf the CEO sits in the hot seat, the CFO’s chair is positively smoking. According to analysis conducted by the CFO Executive Board, annual CFO turnover at the largest 162 global companies between 1995 and 2003 was 17%—even higher than for CEOs—and three out of four current Fortune 500 finance officers have been in their […] -
How to Get Through an Extremely Busy Time at Work
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Turn Digital Overload to Your Advantage
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou can use it to sharpen your focus. -
Here’s What Mindfulness Is (and Isn’t) Good For
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Take a Walk, Sure, but Don't Call It a Break
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour best, most creative breakthroughs don't happen at your desk. -
The Art of Learning from a Colleague
Managing yourself Digital ArticleI have a colleague in publishing who works many miles from me and has a different but overlapping area of editorial expertise. Recently, instead of doing a bit of freelance work for her independently and having her interpret it later, I suggested that, as an experiment, I do it live with her on the phone […] -
If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
Work-life balance Digital ArticleCompanies recruit overachievers, then exploit their insecurity. -
Time Management Training Doesn’t Work
Time management Digital ArticleToday’s technologies call for different skills.
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General Electric--Thermocouple Manufacturing (A)
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Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (A)
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Lego Group: Building Strategy
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The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self--Every Day
28.00View Details You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel... -
High-Performance Teams: The Katzenbach-Smith Collection (2 Books)
40.00View Details Teams are fast becoming a flexible and efficient way to enhance organizational performance. This Harvard Business Review collection brings together the... -
Determinants of Economic Growth
Management Case Study8.95View Details Economic growth is a recent phenomenon in human history. This technical note explores this phenomenon in detail, examining the work of Nobel laureate... -
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patent and trademark applications.... -
Redesigning Nissan (A): Carlos Ghosn Takes Charge
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This is the first of a two-case series. When Renault sent Carlos Ghosn to turnaround its alliance partner Nissan, observers were skeptical of his chances.... -
Network Like an Investor
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Toddler Treasures, Inc.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself and Your Career 6-Volume Collection
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Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances
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Teams at Work: Make Time for the Work That Matters
499.00View Details What if you could free up as much as 20% of your workday to focus on the responsibilities that really matter? It sounds like a pipedream, but research... -
The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World
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Paul Revere Insurance Co. (B)
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HBR Working Moms Collection (6 Books)
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Advice for Working Moms (HBR Working Parents Series)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on High Performance (with bonus article "The Right Way to Form New Habits" An interview with James Clear)
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Workforce Wisdom: How to Recruit, Hire, Coach, Motivate, and Retain Your Top Talent
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Be Strategic About Your Time
Time management Digital ArticleIn the frantic buzz of most managerial lives, I see people running from meeting to meeting, consulting their BlackBerrys as though in prayer, desperately working into the night to cope with a deluge of emails and otherwise being busy, busy, busy. The dilemma of all this activity, however, is that it is for the most […] -
Manage Your Human Sigma
Performance indicators Magazine ArticleWhen the Gallup Organization applied Six Sigma principles to sales and service groups at several companies, it learned how much performance variation exists between seemingly similar work groups. Managing that variability can raise overall performance by orders of magnitude and can create organic growth. -
Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
General Electric--Thermocouple Manufacturing (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details GE is considering introducing a "just-in-time" production system to reduce inventory in its thermocouple manufacturing area. The case presents students... -
The Myth of Monotasking
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The More Time We Spend Online, the Less Time We Spend Working
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleWhat time spent on social media does (and doesn't) crowd out. -
Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Describes a company's changing of its compensation and incentive plan. In particular, it shows how a change from hourly pay to piece rate pay (for windshield... -
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
Delegating Magazine ArticleThe burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them. -
Lego Group: Building Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The world famous toymaker, The LEGO Group (LEGO), assembles an internal management team to create a strategic report on LEGO's different product lines... -
Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleCompanies rarely achieve radical performance improvements when they invest in information technology. Most companies use computers to speed up, not break...