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Article Management Time Management 
Harvard Business
JANUARY 7, 2025
Confronting direct reports about performance issues can feel overwhelming, especially for first-time managers, who may worry that sharing critical feedback could damage their relationship with the employee. Many new managers also fail to properly prepare before their performance discussions.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 14, 2024
Learning how to delegate well is a skill every first-time manager needs to learn from the very start. Many people are promoted into management for doing their previous job well. To do that, you first have to change your mindset from “doing” to “managing,” even though it might feel uncomfortable.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2024
This article includes a curated list of HBR articles and podcast episodes to help you manage yourself, your team, and your organization when you’re consumed with what’s happening outside of work.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Five common mistakes to avoid.
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Harvard Business
MAY 20, 2022
Seven practical steps for managers.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 23, 2021
Focus on the root causes of why you’re so busy — not trying to schedule your way out of it.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 8, 2021
Lessons from a management and leadership professor on true effectiveness and productivity.
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Markovitz Consulting
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Indeed, a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management indicates that fifteen percent of companies offer a 32-hour workweek.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Handling scope creep is one of the most challenging – and important — aspects of a project manager’s role. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies for how to push back on more work in a way that maintains your relationship with the requester, whether that’s the project sponsor, a customer, or another stakeholder.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 29, 2020
Your productivity hinges on these three skills.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 23, 2023
We are all project managers to some extent. From film directors and restaurant owners to lawyers and accountants, many professions involve managing projects. For everyone, not just project managers, mastering timeboxing can be a gateway to bridging the gap between intention and execution.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 20, 2023
When you’re working toward a promotion to a management position, proving that you’re ready is just one part of the process. To be a strong manager, you need to be a problem-solver at the highest level. It’s essential to uncover what you don’t know yet.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 16, 2023
One of the biggest mistakes in project management is that simply telling someone to do something is enough for it to get done. In most cases, especially with longer and more complex projects, assigning work isn’t enough, explaining work isn’t enough, and even planning out work isn’t enough.
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Tom Spencer
APRIL 12, 2024
Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.
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Consulting Success
AUGUST 12, 2022
CRM” stands for customer relationship management, a type of software that helps you manage relationships with your current and prospective clients. Without a CRM, you’ll have a tough time managing the relationships that you build. Your CRM will help you easily manage key. What are the best CRMs for consultants?
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 2, 2025
This can have professional and team ramifications, which both managers and parents can remedy in different ways. These strategies work, but they can come at a cost: some parents do not feel they have many close friends at work, do not feel a sense of belonging, and are out of the loop on workplace gossip.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Three strategies to prevent mental exhaustion from derailing your day.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 29, 2016
When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 2, 2024
As a first-time manager, you might be unsure of how much autonomy to give your team members. The proliferation of remote and hybrid work makes striking a balance between over- and undermanaging even trickier.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
“My team has a time management problem,” leaders often tell me. “Time management” becomes a catchall solution to this problem, and they want to hire me to offer tips and techniques on things like prioritizing and using their calendars better. .
Halo Psych
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
8 minute read Your manager is leaving for a new job. You made the decision to go for the manager role. Youre about to go from being a peer with the rest of the team, to being their manager. Ive worked with many first-time managers in exactly this position. You got the job. Congratulations! But what now?
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
If someone you manage is complaining to you about the amount of grunt work they have, you need to figure out a way to help them get over their frustration and see that everyone on the team has grunt work they have to do, and also learn to manage their time so that they don’t short-change higher-value activities.
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Harvard Business
MAY 24, 2017
Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. How can we manage human capital better?
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The Management Centre
MAY 31, 2022
And there comes a point when even fitting in the fun stuff can be exhausting, because we’re already worn out from trying to do all the other things, all the time. You’ve probably already encountered at least a few time management tools in your career. On top of this, I have my management responsibilities. Sound familiar?
Harvard Business
MARCH 11, 2024
In this article, the author outlines eight strategies to try to build more breaks into your day. Many people operate from the belief that there’s too much to do and they can’t afford to pause during their workday. But taking effective breaks is essential to preventing burnout.
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Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
As most of us spend the majority of our time working, it’s important to consider where that time is spent, how to manage your tasks and energy, and how to ultimately find fulfilment. Know where you spend your time. In order to manage your money, you need to know how much is coming in and where it is going.
154 Harvard Business
APRIL 17, 2018
Some of these stars succeed in their new role as manager; many others do not. And when they fail, they tend to leave the organization, costing the company double: Not only has the team lost its new manager, but it’s also lost the best individual contributor. This is a requirement for effective managers. Everyone loses.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2023
If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. In this article, the author offers tips that will help you focus on what’s truly urgent in your organization and enable your team to deliver strong results and sustain high performance over time.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
But studies now reveal that doctors spend half of their time managing EHRs and desk work, shortchanging patients and fueling burnout. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were hailed as a cure to the inefficiency of paper-based systems.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
In this article, the author offers five strategies to overcome procrastination on ambiguous but essential tasks: 1) Get clear on the vision. It’s human nature to procrastinate — but it can be devastating for your future goals if you continually procrastinate on projects that are important but not urgent. 2) Identify concrete steps.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2023
Advice from a time-management coach on navigating four key phases of the process.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2024
In this article, the author outlines strategies for how to focus your energy so you can have the most significant impact while also considering what makes sense for you in the long run. Working longer hours for a struggling company may make you feel like a hero, but one person’s efforts will not save an at-risk organization.
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Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
As mentioned in a previous article, most business schools require either a GMAT or GRE score for their MBA programs. However, based on my own experience with the GMAT, achieving a competitive score requires a significant investment of both time and money. These test scores typically account for about 20% of the overall application.
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Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In this article, the author outlines how to intentionally harness your curiosity to maximize your results instead of undermine them: First, identify what’s useful to your work, and hold off on everything else for later. It can help you slow down and reflect, so you can solve business problems, build better relationships, and reduce stress.
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Harvard Business
APRIL 30, 2018
The first type is commonly known as time-management planning, which involves making to-do lists, prioritizing and scheduling tasks, and ultimately managing one’s time. We found that employees’ use of time-management planning had strong positive effects on their daily engagement and daily productivity.
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Johanna Rothman
AUGUST 4, 2020
I told the story of Cliff, a manager who wanted to understand why the projects were so late. I gave several talks about that article. One eagle-eyed fellow asked me this question, “How long was the time from T0 to T1?” ” I said, “Managers might spend as little as a quarter and as much as a year or two.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 26, 2023
All too often in the case of layoffs, the people who survive it are expected to pick up the work that their terminated colleagues left behind. Meanwhile, these layoff survivors are often struggling with survivor guilt, anxiety, and low morale. In short, after a layoff, more is being asked of people who have less to give.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 14, 2018
For one, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do — and this behavior is often reinforced by their peers. This is hardly an effective way to motivate people and help them grow, and it can result in wasted time, money, and energy. questioning.
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Harvard Business
JUNE 4, 2018
Fair managers can reap big dividends. In a recent paper , published at the Academy of Management Journal, we propose that one explanation is that many managers are, simply put, too busy to be fair. We also sought to understand what organizations could do to help overworked managers act more fairly.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 29, 2023
But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity? Instead, this article offers new tips for how to balance work and meetings and suggests questions you can ask yourself when planning your day.
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Harvard Business
JULY 4, 2016
This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” Managers, on the other hand, are the leaders who integrate across disciplines and serve as the interface between customer needs and the organization’s strategy. Please do not disturb.”
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been.
127 Harvard Business
JULY 25, 2018
” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” Did you reply to customers within the specified times? Question 3: Am I owning my time management and using productivity resources? hbrstaff/birdimages/Getty Images.
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