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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? […] -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
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Are You Spending Your Parenting Time and Energy Wisely?
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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 […] -
Stop People from Wasting Your Time
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The Science of Thinking Smarter
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6 Tips for Running Offsites That Aren’t a Waste of Time
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Strategies for the Shorthanded
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5 Ways to Focus at Work, from an Executive Who’s Struggled with ADHD
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The Virtual Work Skills You Need - Even If You Never Work Remotely
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The 8 Digital Productivity Tools Everyone Should Adopt
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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 […] -
Want to Boost Productivity? Give Workers Bigger Screens
Personal productivity Digital ArticleThe easiest way to increase the productivity of people working on computers is to increase the size of their monitors. I recently suggested that a firm add an additional screen for all its customer service workers and you can see below that in a month’s time, the time per call decreased from about three minutes […] -
Making the Most of “Slow Time”
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The Case for Investing More in People
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The Potential of Remote Health Monitoring at Work
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleOne spring morning a few years back, I went from being a healthy middle-aged guy to a healthy middle-aged guy with type 2 diabetes in the blink of a blood test. The news came out of the blue — I’m thin, active, eat a pretty decent diet, don’t smoke, and there’s no diabetes in my […] -
Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research
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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination
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The Real 800-Pound Gorilla of Presenteeism
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleWhat we’ve learned about the legions of workers whose days begin without a good night’s rest.
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State Bank of India: Transforming a State Owned Giant
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Work Smarter with Social Media: A Guide to Managing Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Your Email
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Florida Power Light Quality Improvement (QI) Story Exercise (A)
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The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World
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Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (With New Preface)
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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? […] -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
International business Digital ArticleAn analysis of 400 case studies uncovers several ways to solve the world’s infrastructure challenges more efficiently. -
Why Can't We Stop Working?
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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 […] -
Stop People from Wasting Your Time
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Work Smarter, Rule Your Email
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6 Tips for Running Offsites That Aren’t a Waste of Time
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleThink twice about who should be invited. -
Strategies for the Shorthanded
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5 Ways to Focus at Work, from an Executive Who’s Struggled with ADHD
Psychology Digital ArticleWorkarounds honed through trial and error. -
Three Questions that Help Me Live a Fulfilling Life
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