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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. A journal is an effective, efficient, private way to take a similar break.

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25 ideas to help you set good goals in 2025

Halo Psych

Break your goal down into smaller sub-goals A recent study in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that found that by breaking down a commitment to volunteer 200 hours per year into smaller subgoals made it more likely people would stick with the goal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120 (1), 226-256. Burchard, B.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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Case Interviews: How to Stand Out in the Crowd

Tom Spencer

This approach helps you stay focused and efficient in your analysis. Keep a journal of your practice cases, noting down the types of cases you’ve tackled, the frameworks you’ve used, and any recurring challenges. As you gather more data, test and refine your hypothesis. You don’t have to come to an answer that matches your hypothesis!

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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

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. But the reduction in office hours can be the stimulus for creative thinking about how to increase productivity and efficiency.

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3 Biases That Hijack Performance Reviews, and How to Address Them

Harvard Business

But according to cognitive science , everybody, by virtue of having a brain that’s constantly seeking efficiency, is biased in some way — and not all biases make us actively malicious. The best way to sidestep distance bias is to record information along the way, almost like a journal of employee feedback.

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7 Key Differences Between Managers and Leaders

Clarity Consultants

In a book excerpted in the Wall Street Journal , Alan Murray explains that while leadership and management often go hand-in-hand, today’s knowledge economy requires the inspiration and purpose-driven vision that can only come from true leaders, not just efficiency-focused managers. Aren’t leaders and managers basically the same thing?