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Until You Have Productivity Skills, Productivity Tools Are Useless

Harvard Business

But once I had, I realized how much the software and gadgets helped me to kick my productivity into high gear. But the truth is, it wasn’t the tools alone, it was also the workflow management process —or methodology—I applied to the tools. To illustrate the problem, let’s use sports as an example.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The event will allow project managers to earn PDUs, learn from expert speakers during the educational sessions, acquire new skills, master new technologies and methodologies, and network with peers. The other track, Product Design and Management, will attract product managers, UI/UX designers, and researchers.

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Consulting Sales Systems That Work for Introverts with Bob Burg: Podcast #16

Consulting Success

He started out as a sports broadcaster for a local radio station, then landed a spot as a TV news broadcaster. After discovering this methodology, Bob immersed himself in the study of sales and personal development and the applied that information to his approach to sales. From Failing Journalist to Successful Speaker.

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Clean Tech Consulting: Adapting to Seize Opportunities

Tom Spencer

With increasing consumer demand for ethically sourced and environmentally responsible products, organizations need to consider the entire lifecycle of their products. This includes promoting circular economy principles – reducing waste, repairing and re-using products, and recycling raw materials – to extend the life cycle of products.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

Capturing the digital opportunity is becoming even more of a team sport. They should have a plan for helping people use the new technologies and the related new methodologies more effectively. It was all reminiscent of 19 th century advertisements for cure-all patent medicines. Remember that technology alone is not a cure-all.

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Formal Work Environment: The Pros and Cons to Consider

LSA Global

Disciplined processes help streamline decision-making , prevent unnecessary delays, and minimize errors, all of which ultimately enhance productivity. For example, in professional sports, new players are drafted each year who compete to take the starting jobs of players already on the team.

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