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Screen Apnea: Why You Hold Your Breath at Your Screen
Screen apnea is the tendency to hold your breath while you stare at a screen. You may have heard of sleep apnea, where breathing stops during sleep....
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How Often Should You Have One-to-Ones?
How often should you have one-to-ones? Ask five managers, and you'll get one of two answers: 30 or 60 minutes, every other week, for everyone on the team, no exceptions. That's a schedule, not a decision....
Reflect, Prioritize, Plan: The Step Almost Everyone Skips
Planning is the most productive-looking way to procrastinate. You can give it a full afternoon. You can give it a whiteboard, a template, and a colored pen. In the end, you have a document that feels like evidence, and you can say with a straight face that you worked...
What’s the Difference Between Optimization and Prioritization?
Here's a question worth asking: when was the last time you optimized something you should have just cut? I used to focus only on the optimization part. My first book was even called Hack the Mobile Lifestyle. In my 30s, that lifehacking cost me. I wrecked my health...
The Three Levels of Prioritization: Essential, Relentless, Radical
Think about a top priority in your life right now. A health habit you keep restarting. A relationship you keep saying matters. A project that stays at the top of the list and never gets the dedicated time. You know what it is. You've probably known for months. And you...
Find the Real Bottleneck: A Prioritization Framework for Teams
Are You Solving the Real Problem or the Visible One? A few months ago, I was in Atlanta going through TSA. Long line. Really long. The checkpoint was short-staffed, and anyone could see it. What I also noticed: they'd brought in ICE agents to manage the line. Agents...
Why can’t you get to your priorities?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/43TsSSBTQpwr30Ih3pv0vA?si=e33e4f1d60ca4a37 You know what your priorities are. You've probably said them out loud, maybe even written them down. Maybe they're on a whiteboard, in your planner, in your project management system. You...
How to Stay Connected and Productive Working Remotely
I've been working remotely since 2002. At one point, I managed a team of up to 18 people globally. I had a manager I worked with for six years, and didn't meet in person until year five, but we still managed to stay connected remotely. Remote work done well isn't...
Better Remote One-On-One Questions Every Leader Should Ask
Remote employees are less likely to get promoted than their in-office peers. Not because they're less capable. Because they're less visible. And when visibility is the gap, better remote one-on-one questions are one of the most powerful tools a leader has to close it....
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