Learning

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Nov 22, 20202 min read

No Agenda, No Meeting

Learn about 3 questions you should ask before agreeing to any meeting.