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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 18, 2021
- 1 min
Nike's 10 Value 👟
Nike was founded on ten business values that allowed the leadership team to rapidly build a world-leading brand. Included in these values...
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 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
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
Your "Yes" Story
You earn the right to say no, when your boss and other leaders trust that you are saying yes to the right things and spending time on...
Alexander Bant
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Solve Harder Problems
There is an Elon Musk quote that I can't stop thinking about and it is at the center of what Not Doing List is all about. Check it out....
Alexander Bant
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Not Discussing List
In Not Doing List we look at how using #NDLs can help teams win back time together and reallocate those hours into more import work. The...
Alexander Bant
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Say no without using "I" "my" "me" "you"
Peter Drucker invented the concept known as management by objectives (MBOs) and has been described as “the founder of modern management.”...
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
- Jan 5, 2021
- 3 min
Saying "No" to Your Boss
After you make a Not Doing List, fear will quickly set in. Fear that you can't actually skip, dodge, delete, or not do the things on your...
Alexander Bant
- Jan 3, 2021
- 3 min
Productive Days Don’t Happen by Accident
74% of people report leaving the office without having done the important things. Think about your average weekday morning. How does it...
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 22, 2020
- 1 min
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 22, 2020
- 2 min
6 Questions to Zero-Base Your 2021 Calendar
Before you shut down and sign off for the year, take some time to zero-base your 2021 calendar. What does zero-basing mean? Let me...
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,...