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Alexander Bant
Apr 28, 20212 min read
Listen-Only Mode 🎧
Sharing some advice this week that Mark Cuban received at age 22, which changed his career trajectory forever. He got direct feedback...
Alexander Bant
Apr 11, 20212 min read
Track Your Lost Time
How do you end your typical workday? For most professionals it's a combination of clearing out the last few emails, knocking out final to...
Alexander Bant
Mar 23, 20212 min read
Unlearning 🎓
Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or being taught. It’s something we all strive to spend more...
Alexander Bant
Jan 10, 20213 min read
Rule of 10: Switching from "Yes" to "No"
I’ve been presenting the concepts from Not Doing List to a few audiences in advance of the book launching this spring. Last week, someone...
Alexander Bant
Dec 22, 20201 min read
Playing Tetris With Your Calendar = 22%+ More Productivity
To help win back more of your #168hours for important work in 2021, try these tricks heading into the new year: Stack meetings...
Alexander Bant
Dec 6, 20202 min read
Flip Your Competitive Paranoia
Former Intel CEO Andrew Grove famously liked to remind his employees: “Only the paranoid survive. Paranoia, when properly deployed, can...
Alexander Bant
Dec 5, 20203 min read
Proactively Slim Down Your 2021 Objectives
Most management teams are gearing up to set 2021 objectives. That means now is the time for you to play Chief "Simplification" Officer....
Alexander Bant
Nov 30, 20203 min read
Reward the Five "No" Behaviors
My book NOT DOING LIST helps leaders focus and use their #168hours more productively. This blog post is about rewarding the #NDL...
Alexander Bant
Nov 26, 20202 min read
Use a "Ridiculous Reschedule"
We still sit through way too many meetings that we know are a complete waste of our time. They don't have an agenda, they don't have a...
Alexander Bant
Nov 26, 20202 min read
Hey Siri, remind me to NOT
In Not Doing List, I show readers how to get harder, more important work done by starting each week with a list of what you will delete,...
Alexander Bant
Nov 22, 20202 min read
No Agenda, No Meeting
Learn about 3 questions you should ask before agreeing to any meeting.
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