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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

It’s the greatest challenge of our modern age: maintaining a healthy work-life balance and maximizing your productivity to help your business and career thrive. The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. Outsource your resources.

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135 Powerful Resume Action Verbs for Creative Positions

HR Digest

Here’s an action verbs list for creative positions: CREATIVE PLANNING: Example: Developed a company culture initiative which raised employee presenteeism by 25% YoY. Example: Implemented company-wide book reading practice that led to better workflow and higher productivity. Administered. Commissioned. Conceptualized. Classified.

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

One leader of a division in a big multinational told me that after working with us and balancing his all-male team, performance, productivity and engagement all went up dramatically. Leaders readily understood the need to learn the language and culture of new markets, from China and India to Brazil.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

They ran productive meetings. And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.).

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they question the motives of a company for even offering a wellness program, which they slam as an “employee control tool” and “a marketing tool for health plans.” Good health “plays a large role in employee productivity,” says a research study by the Milken Institute, an economic think tank.

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

People become self-absorbed and lose sight of the wider context — customers, constituencies, markets, or the world. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Leaders can guide productive, inclusive, and empowering actions that build winners' habits.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The latter is not an unfamiliar process for most large organizations, which routinely deploy procurement officers to identify the strongest suppliers and then measure quality to ensure delivery of a defect-free product in an agreed-upon time frame. It’s highly likely that providers will cooperate. That’s good.