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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Mar 15, 2021
- 2 min
Focus = Not Doing
Focus. How many times a week do you hear someone say this word? It could be you, your colleagues, your customers, and your boss. "Focus...
Alexander Bant
- Jan 12, 2021
- 2 min
“Distract Me” Time
I listened to a great new book this week by Cal Newport called Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. It builds on...
Alexander Bant
- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
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 24, 2020
- 3 min
Find Time for Your 2021 Resolutions
We are about to turn the page into next year. That is a signal for most people to get busy listing out resolutions. However, according to...
Alexander Bant
- Dec 6, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
No Agenda, No Meeting
Learn about 3 questions you should ask before agreeing to any meeting.