A few years ago I had a very interesting discussion with Lisa Bodell, CEO of Futurethink and bestselling author of innovation books Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She told me about how most employees waste far too much time in meetings and answering emails. They were too busy to get any real work [...]
In today's generation, there is so much pressure to "hustle" (what some people call Entrepreneurial Porn), that it is leading people to believe you need to be constantly busy in order to be successful. However, this mindset is literally killing thousands of people each year, and is not actually helping them do their best work. [...]
How much time during a standard 8-hour work day do you think most people are productive? Would you say about 6.5 hours? 5 hours? Well, the statistics are much lower than that. According to a study of 1,989 workers in the UK, the average person is only doing productive work for around 2 hours and [...]
