#168hours

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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,...