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Case Study: When You’re Successful, Stretched Too Thin, and Indispensable

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But Michael, I can’t manage three shows without delegating. The market is shrinking—and getting more fragmented—but the revenue for your shows is going up.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1. Personal Development.

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

Some people make radical moves; others make small changes" in how they delegate or schedule their day, Wrzesniewski says. When they developed relationships with the clerks on each ward, they received more accurate information and were able to do a more efficient job of cleaning. Case Study #1: Integrate your interests into the job.

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How to Deal with a Chronically Indecisive Boss

Harvard Business Review

In these cases, “you need to help your boss sort through the information” and then offer “a clear rationale for your recommendation.” ” It’s also helpful to “enable your boss to delegate to you without formality,” says Finkelstein. Protect yourself. You need people who have your back.”

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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

Insecure employees are “hard to evaluate, hard to coach, and hard to develop,” says Ethan Burris, an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. Developing rapport with anxious employees requires patience and effort. What the Experts Say. ” Build trust. Be a martyr.

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How to Manage Your Star Employee

Harvard Business Review

And you need to “offer positive feedback” — but not in ways that are counterproductive to the person’s growth and development. Think about development. The antidote to this problem is “ classic talent development ,” Shapiro says. ” Everyone on your team “deserves to be developed.”

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What Knowledge Workers Stand to Gain from Automation

Harvard Business Review

The workplace adoption of RPA differs from classic business process automation in two important respects: The developer hoping to automate a task does not need to have programming skills. Even where a particular tedious task is not being performed by a very large number of people, RPA can economically delegate the task to robots.