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How to Be More Productive Without Burning Out

Harvard Business

In fact, as recently as 2012, a Gallup poll revealed that 40% of U.S. Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked.

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Important Tax Law Changes for 2012 & 2013|Women In Consulting.

Women in Consulting

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

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Best Practices in Consulting: How Do You Stack Up in 2012.

Women in Consulting

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business

Our products work with apps or without apps. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Our residential products don’t require an app to do their job; instead, they come with a variety of control options, an app among them.

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The Power of Designing Products for Customers You Don’t Have Yet

Harvard Business

Traditional banks should have had all the tools to create new products for consumers who were frustrated with their options, but they focused instead on segmenting customers more or less into “wealthy” or “not worth it.” ” In 2012 ING Direct was sold to Capital One for $9 billion.

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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. product placement market grew by 12.8% My research on product placement suggests two new routes that could leverage the evolution in consumer behavior.