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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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Many human resources experts say that they are searching for leaders rather than managers these days. Aren’t leaders and managers basically the same thing? So what separates a leader from a manager? Here are seven key differences between managers and leaders and why they matter: 1. Managers react; leaders plan.

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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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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 4, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. The Secrecy of Management Consulting. Perhaps the work of management consultants is a lot more empirical, and too contextual to a specific (client) situation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. One emotion that often defines work is stress. The good news?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Learn the basic frameworks Familiarize yourself with common business frameworks such as the profitability framework , market entry, SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), the 3Cs (Company, Customers, Competitors), and the 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion). Don’t Stress!

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We were exchanging ideas about definitive references for management consultants related to the visual aspect of presentations. The title of the journal article, spells out people’s tendencies loud and clear, “Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving”. What about this complicated feature in the product?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

This, most probably, is what Vasquez meant when she said that the firm plans “to harness the power of our local journalism, feed it into a funnel, and then optimize it so we reach the biggest global audience possible.” Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. Eyeballs Instead of Experiences.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. Here are a couple that we’d recommend — The Wall Street Journal , Harvard Business Review , Business Week , Fortune , and The Economist. management consulting'

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

Few issues are more foundational to driving improvements in human health than creating productive, progressive relationships between clinical medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Product returns are a costly problem for retailers. customers return a hefty $264 billion worth of products annually—almost 9% of total sales. In online retailing, most products are returned because customers aren’t satisfied with what they get—but this isn’t necessarily due to product defects.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

We found that increasing your engagement and productivity at work could be as simple as making a plan for the day. 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. You and Your Team Series. Sabina Nawaz.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

In a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research , my colleagues Rajesh Bagchi and Stefan Hock and I demonstrate that longer deadlines can lead workers to think an assignment is harder than it actually is, which causes them to commit more resources to the work. Can productivity still be wrangled? Our results suggest yes.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Economies of scope exist where a firm can produce two products at a lower per unit cost than would be possible if it produced only the one. If properly understood, economies of scope could be used by SMEs to drive profit growth and reduce the risk associated with product failure. Importance. burgers, fries, sundaes and salads).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

I also think my article gave Tronc’s management short shrift. They are trying to revive a storied icon of American journalism and should be given some credit. As a former publishing CEO who managed a number of digital and print brands, I know how difficult that can be. Everything else is optimization. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For example, pushing for change without being told to can ignite resistance from supervising managers and fellow colleagues. On the one hand, top managers need to provide autonomy so that middle managers feel comfortable taking initiative. The Critical Role of Top Managers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. To find an innovative way forward, we looked beyond our own industry because traditional approaches in health care management had not evolved much over the previous decades.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

Most managers would agree that motivated, productive employees are crucial for organizational success, regardless of company size, industry, or corporate strategy. Sometimes, these incentives work in ways managers intended them to. The question is how to motivate them. We wanted to learn more about this relationship.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2018

Common wisdom in management science and practice has it that to build support for a change project, visionary leadership is needed to outline what is wrong with the current situation. But our research, recently published in the Academy of Management Journal , leads us to add a very important caveat to this.

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of Iowa, and went on to teach journalism courses at Drake University, Northwestern University and Columbia University. This new method was named “Q12 measurements,” which offered a platform his was a huge management consulting breakthrough!

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

But we know considerably less about how bias plays out when minorities are hired, especially when it comes to on-the-job performance and productivity. Recent research I conducted along with Dylan Glover and William Pariente, forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, attempts to address this gap.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

Employees who laugh together have been shown to be more creative , more collaborative and as a result more productive and profitable. In a new research paper forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal , we found that a leader’s use of humor can be a mixed blessing, with sometimes surprising effects on organizational behavior.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2013

For an in-depth look at competitive response in the pharmaceutical industry, take a look at “ Competitive Response to Radical Product Innovations ”, an article in the May 2008 Journal of Marketing. Case scenario is a derivation from a practice case provided by The Boston Consulting Group.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2019

They think it’s yet another short-term management fad. But when you look at many of the tools and concepts from the lean playbook, they’re really just good management that any leader would want to embrace. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Larry Culp’s efforts to turn around faltering General Electric.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. Workers with great managers tend to perform well and experience higher positive affect.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

For Coates, generating good ideas and quality work products requires something all too rare in modern life: quiet. Author JK Rowling, biographer Walter Isaacson, and psychiatrist Carl Jung have all had disciplined practices for managing the information flow and cultivating periods of deep silence. It was a call to get beyond the noise.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Like every shareholders letter Bezos has written since his company went public in 1997, this year’s version was brilliant, entertaining, and filled with big strategic insights and gritty management takeaways. To my eyes, though, it was also missing something — an omission that became even more glaring a week or so later.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Advice on how to improve one’s self is everywhere. It accounts for about 2.5% Sabina Nawaz.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

So, you set out for early wins in what seem like obvious areas to fix — on the cost side, perhaps the speed of processes within production, and on the revenue side, the size of the sales force. That’s why you were brought in. But rushing toward early wins, even in areas that seem uncontroversial, can be unexpectedly hazardous.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

So we recently conducted a series of studies (forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Psychology) to gain insight into how that dynamic plays out at work. In light of those potential costs, managers should directly address the negative beliefs that people are harboring.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 10, 2025

9) Reflective practice might help us manage emotions For example, in a study involving more than 400 military cadets in Italy , researchers found that self-efficacy in managing negative emotions at work was an important resource for workers in managing job-related stress (Alessandri et al, 2018). Barbagallo, M.S. Grant, A.M.,

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 17, 2021

When I attended consulting career workshops, recruiters from the Big 4 and management consulting firms frequently stressed the importance of being yourself in order to show why you are a good fit for the role. Journaling. Journaling involves writing down your thoughts, sentiments and goals in a notebook or word document.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 6, 2018

CareAi’s diagnosis is based on a statistical analysis of all of that data: if I see “A” in your blood and medical journals say that means you have malaria, CareAi can say whether you have malaria up to a certain confidence level. Based on the blood sample, the device would diagnose a disease where one exists.

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Whether you are a management consultant, sales consultant, or design consultant, reading these blogs (and most importantly, taking action on their advice) will help you improve your consulting business. Consultant Journal Consultant Journal is a helpful collection of posts, articles, books, and courses related to all aspects of consulting.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 16, 2017

One of the critical steps that she took on this path was obtaining freelance journaling work. Staying Focused and Productive. You’ll definitely want to read it, as it highlights the differences between a typical day of a manager and a maker. 22:04] Tips for staying focused and productive. [26:42]

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