My (mostly) weekly thoughts on leadership, high performance, wellbeing and more.

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The Joy of Subtracting

Overwhelmed clients often ask me for tips and tricks to help them handle the demands on their time and energy.

Stop to think about it, though, and that’s bonkers. How is adding more going to help with overwhelm?

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How to escape from meetings overload

In nearly all of the dozens of workplaces we’ve studied, helped, or worked at, we’ve found that meetings in particular create wasteful and soul-crushing friction”…

A new Harvard Business Review piece reports research finding what we all already know to be true – and importantly, offers some solutions.

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Delegating: top tips

Delegation is an important component of most leadership roles. The trouble is leaders often have a difficult time letting go of responsibilities. Here’s some tips on when and how to delegate.

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Busywork will take over if you let it

Lately there has been a real theme among my clients: how to find time to get important work done in the face of the relentless onslaught of to-dos.

Here’s the hard reality…

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3 steps to solving the hustle v happiness problem

Many of my clients come to me because they find themselves at a career crossroads. They can see the brightly lit road to (more) success at work ahead of them. They know what would be required to get there. And they find themselves, often to their surprise and bewilderment, unwilling to follow it. Here’s how I tackle that one…

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