Productivity

Match Your Productivity Approach to the Way You Work – Harvard Business Review We need to personalize productivity—to employ work strategies that align with our own cognitive styles and to plan and allocate effort in a way that suits our strengths and preferences.

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4 Ways to Make Conference Calls Less Terrible – Harvard Business Review The good news is that companies can make their meetings more relevant and productive by making a few simple adjustments — even though many of them go against some familiar office habits. 1. Stop striving for inclusiveness. 2. Start using video. 3. But don’t abandon the physical conference room just yet. 4. Understand technology use versus abuse.

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Accomplish More by Committing to Less – Harvard Business Review Believing that more is always more is a dangerous assumption.  There’s a cost to complexity. Every time you commit to something new, you not only commit to doing the work itself, but also remembering to do the work, dealing with the administrative overhead, and to getting it all done in the time constraints involved.

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