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    Listen-Only Mode 🎧
    Alexander Bant
    • Apr 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
    Track Your Lost Time
    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...
    Unlearning 🎓
    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...
    Focus = Not Doing
    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...
    “Distract Me” Time
    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...
    Rule of 10: Switching from "Yes" to "No"
    Alexander Bant
    • Jan 11, 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...
    Find Time for Your 2021 Resolutions
    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...
    Flip Your Competitive Paranoia
    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...
    Proactively Slim Down Your 2021 Objectives
    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....
    Reward the Five "No" Behaviors
    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...
    Use a "Ridiculous Reschedule"
    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...
    Hey Siri, remind me to NOT
    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,...
    No Agenda, No Meeting
    Alexander Bant
    • Nov 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    No Agenda, No Meeting

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