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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...
    Nike's 10 Value 👟
    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...
    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...
    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...
    Your "Yes" Story
    Alexander Bant
    • Feb 22, 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...
    Solve Harder Problems
    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....
    Not Discussing List
    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...
    Say no without using "I" "my" "me" "you"
    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.”...
    “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...
    Saying "No" to Your Boss
    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...
    Productive Days Don’t Happen by Accident
    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...
    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...
    Playing Tetris With Your Calendar = 22%+ More Productivity
    Alexander Bant
    • Dec 23, 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...
    6 Questions to Zero-Base Your 2021 Calendar
    Alexander Bant
    • Dec 23, 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...
    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,...
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