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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. For example, video content has become a significant part of marketing, particularly on social media. ’ Deep work is the new superpower for focus and productivity developed by Professor Cal Newport.

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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: Worked closely with marketing team to revise the creative direction on five projects. Administered. Commissioned. Conceptualized. Classified. Formulated.

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

HR Digest

We started in 2005 working with a lot of multinationals that were globalizing, seeing much of their future growth coming from new markets and needing their leadership teams to reflect a deeper understanding and representation of these places and cultures. Bundling these two mega-trends made a lot of sense.

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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. Withdrawing from contact further isolates them, encouraging others to back away too. Silos harden.

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

Harvard Business Review

To achieve better care, employers need to work with providers to determine the conditions that are generating the greatest direct and indirect costs and to develop measurable quality goals. The selection of what to work on and the accompanying measures must be market relevant, standardized, and measured rapidly. That’s good.

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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.” They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs.

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

Ask Atma

They develop action plans. 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.).