Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. 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.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

How often do you consider the air quality in your office and how it affects employees and their productivity? In the 1970s, efforts to conserve energy in the U.S. Given these studies tying air quality to health, we wanted to see whether improved ventilation affects cognitive function, an indicator of worker productivity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2024

However, continuously giving your time, energy, and focus to the wrong people can add up and take away from more meaningful work. There are times when it’s to your benefit to respectfully decline a networking invitation.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s no secret that a healthy workplace is a more productive workplace. However, with remote work and working from home on the rise, many employees have faced challenges with transforming their spare bedroom or basement area into an organized and productive home office. Setup your Tech for Comfort and Productivity.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

Energy transitions occur from time to time, due to the discovery of new energy sources such as coal or due to policy changes, such as France’s embrace of nuclear energy. Energy transitions have occurred throughout history, from burning wood to coal, then oil and natural gas. Background.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

Skyrocketing energy prices in the wake of the post-pandemic economic recovery has been all over the news, and for good reason. The rising cost of energy feeds into the pricing of all goods, causing inflation globally. McKinsey, BCG, Bain and the Big Four all have specific divisions to cater for clients from the energy industry.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For example, Adidas has launched initiatives to produce shoes from ocean plastic waste , turning a pollutant into a valuable consumer product. Companies are implementing various strategies to minimize waste production, from the design phase, lean manufacturing techniques, to end-of-life management.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation. So, take the initiative.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 12, 2025

Rather than viewing eLearning as a sunk cost, many organizations approach it as a strategic advantage that enhances productivity, improves compliance, and fosters employee engagement. It assesses long-term business impact, including productivity gains, cost savings, and performance improvements.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But a narrow focus on burnout ignores another key part of wellbeing — the more subtle but equally important ongoing maintenance of one’s energy, especially through the daily challenges of leadership. The authors identify five key energy batteries: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2020

This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. The earlier you wake up, the more productive you will be.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

Government incentives for investment into renewable energy sources, such as subsidies and tax credits , are becoming an increasingly popular way for governments to meet national pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, renewable energy is naturally occurring and based on resources that are continually replenished.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Many companies are investing heavily to identify what leads to high engagement in order to motivate employees, thereby increasing their happiness and productivity. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive. We think this is important.

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Office Skills

JANUARY 28, 2025

The mid-afternoon slump isnt just a myth; its a reality for many employees striving to stay productive through the workday. That lag […] The post Boosting Productivity: Managing Daily Energy Dips At Work appeared first on Office Skills Training. Is it time to find a new job?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

While productivity is important, the balance between task completion and taking the time to connect with your team is essential in avoiding burnout and making work more enjoyable. A consequence of our often never-ending to-do lists at work is the loss of camaraderie among coworkers.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

Robert Sutton, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, looked at the research on group size and concluded that the most productive meetings contain only five to eight people. You are aware of how much time and energy everyone spends in meetings, and you want to implement a strategy that will yield the best results.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How forward-looking organizations are protecting employees’ time and energy.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Environmental Metrics: These measure a company’s impact on the planet, including emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water usage, and sustainability of the supply chain. For instance, Tesla’s focus on sustainable energy solutions has significantly bolstered its reputation as an innovator in the automotive industry.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

On a team, these feelings, and the resulting hit to productivity, can be contagious. Some of your team members may be looking around and wondering how their colleagues are keeping it together while they’re losing sleep and unable to be productive. ” Here are practical ways to do that. Encourage self-compassion.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2018

So off I went to my clients, with Paul’s videos embedded in my PowerPoint presentation, ready to show them how 2 Second Lean is the answer to their productivity problems, their low employee engagement and morale scores, their mediocre customer service, and their too-high defect rates. And I failed. That was my fault.

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Harvard Business

MAY 14, 2021

The key to productivity isn’t starting strong — it’s staying strong.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Lists help you manage your attention and energy by letting you control what you see and when you see it. You now have a list that can help shape your conversations in two ways: by giving you more control over what you see, and by giving new options for privacy settings that affect who sees what you post.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Many may be what Michael Maccoby calls “productive narcissists,” whose aggressive energy, engaging charm, and relentless self-importance power impressive business success. As consultants, we don’t want to be narcissists; yet, narcissistic competitors can eat your consulting business alive. Why do they succeed?

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Consulting Matters

MAY 30, 2024

Before you double down on working harder to boost your performance, watch this episode with Julie and discover: The surprising link between wellness and high performance and why you’ll boost your energy and productivity ONLY if you prioritize self-care Why thinking that self-care is a luxury and not a necessity is the #1 culprit behind stress (..)

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

For example, currently, the A&D industry is facing increasing geopolitical and economic uncertainty as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, energy and raw materials challenges due to the sanctions imposed on Russia, inflation rate, etc. Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Energy, too, is difficult to come by. Based on our research , inspired employees are three times more productive than dissatisfied employees, but they are rare. Energy can be created and destroyed.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

Imagine the productivity gain of reducing all those complaining hours. Those feelings build up as energy in our bodies, literally creating physical discomfort (that’s why we call them feelings — because we actually, physically , feel them). Why do we complain about other people? Here’s what happens: Someone annoys us.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 15, 2023

We also discuss Puja's Amplified Life Triangle, a vital tool for understanding energy management and achieving a balance between logic and intuition in our lives and businesses. Don't miss this powerful conversation on the importance of deep spiritual work, trusting the process of divine timing, and aligning values and genius in work.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

energy, enthusiasm, and focus), much of the popular narrative has focused on organizational factors such as job design, leadership, or culture. We found that increasing your engagement and productivity at work could be as simple as making a plan for the day. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Sabina Nawaz.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. How many still believe they can make a difference?

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

” By the end of a quarter, she had wrung every ounce of energy out of marketing, and we started the next quarter from a standstill with no momentum and no leverage. It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. For another, the funnel fails to capture momentum. That’s no longer true. IT investment.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

Changes to a developed product. Changes to a developed product are inevitable, however, they turn into challenges when they get out of control and there are several sources of truth. digital twin and digital thread, the introduction of new propulsion systems and alternative energy sources, etc.).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

The goal was to find newcomers who got connected (and productive) much more quickly than peers starting at the same time and who stayed in the organization through milestones, such as the first nine months and the two- to four-year tenure band, at which flight risk is greatest.

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