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To Get More Done, Focus on Environment, Expectations, and Examples

Harvard Business

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. We were product managers, designers, and leaders.

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Collaboration Overload Is a Symptom of a Deeper Organizational Problem

Harvard Business

Attempts to liberate unproductive time by employing new tools (for example, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Box) or imposing new guidelines and meeting disciplines will prove fruitless unless steps are taken to deal with the underlying organizational illness. As companies grow, they naturally add new dimensions to their organizations.

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