How I Work
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How I Work explores practical ideas on work habits, productivity, decision-making, and building more sustainable ways of operating.
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Included for practical guidance on work habits, productivity, decision-making, and building more sustainable ways of operating.
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Deep work & focus
Podcast
Running two CEO roles with analogue productivity systems
How I Work
August 18, 2021
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
8
Management
5
- How Post-it notes and quarterly cascades keep two CEO roles aligned
- Unilever's four-day week: eliminating work, not compressing it
- Why reverse mentoring junior staff sharpens executive decision-making
A simple strategy for making better decisions: the Iceberg Yes
How I Work
June 28, 2021
- Saying yes to anything means saying yes to the full iceberg
- We overweight exciting outcomes and underweight hidden effort
- One question reframes every decision: what's below the surface?
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on deep work, digital minimalism, and workflow design
How I Work
January 13, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Processes & SOPs
5
- Busyness is not productivity — deep work is what actually creates value
- Habit tweaks can't fix a workflow built on constant unstructured communication
- Solitude deprivation from endless screen use quietly destroys cognition and wellbeing
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Dan Pink on writing, timing, and designing your workday
How I Work
January 6, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
5
- Your peak mental hours are too valuable to spend on email.
- Environment design beats willpower for sustaining deep work.
- Generating 60 bad titles surfaces the one good one.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Adam Grant on productivity, motivation, and managing your time
How I Work
December 16, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Delegation
8
Deep work & focus
6
- Sequencing tasks wrong tanks performance — taper from interesting to boring.
- Rapid email responsiveness backfires by generating even more email.
- Stack meetings back-to-back; scattered meetings waste 22% of surrounding time.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How Ashutosh Priyadarshy designs a focused, bullshit-free workday
How I Work
November 4, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
- If a task is two steps from your goal, it's probably bullshit
- Separate meeting days from deep work days to eliminate context-switching
- Two-day sprints force creative problem-solving and faster learning
Practical strategies for motivation, collaboration, and productivity in lockdown
How I Work
October 7, 2020
Motivation
9
Resilience & grit
7
Communication
6
- Autonomy, mastery, or connection: diagnosing which is missing fixes most slumps.
- Phone beats video for hard conversations and genuine emotional reading.
- Six five-minute movement breaks outperform one long break for sustained energy.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
How Amazon runs meetings, decisions, and hiring without PowerPoint
How I Work
September 2, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
9
Business operating systems
8
- Why banning PowerPoint forces clearer thinking and better decisions
- Constraint beats unlimited resources for driving real innovation
- A veto-wielding bar raiser removes bias from every hiring decision
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Amantha Imber: resetting work habits, the four-day week, and life after CEO
How I Work
July 22, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Management
6
Processes & SOPs
5
- Why productivity experts fall into the same email traps as everyone else
- The 100-80-100 four-day work week: same output, one day back
- Identity-based rules beat willpower for breaking bad work habits
How Atlassian redesigned meetings and culture for distributed work
How I Work
July 8, 2020
Culture building
9
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Make caring for each other an explicit meeting agenda item.
- One dial-in rule from Trello creates a true level playing field.
- Productivity metrics built for factories fail knowledge workers.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Working from home productively: tips on focus, energy and team culture
How I Work
April 29, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Work-life balance
7
- Align deep work to your chronotype — most people get this wrong.
- Stopping mid-sentence makes re-entering flow almost effortless.
- Remote culture is built by rituals you repeat, not values you state.
How Andrew Barnes made a four-day work week work at scale
How I Work
April 22, 2020
Processes & SOPs
9
Deep work & focus
7
Management
5
- Time scarcity, not management pressure, is what cuts workplace waste
- Open-plan offices cost 22 minutes of recovery for every 11-minute interruption
- Team-based accountability makes wasting colleagues' time a shared risk
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Six apps to reduce distractions when working from home
How I Work
April 13, 2020
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
6
Automation & tools
5
- Closing email entirely beats minimising it for focus.
- Forest's dying tree makes phone avoidance surprisingly motivating.
- Pocket batches article reading so tabs never multiply.
Objection handling
Podcast
How auctioneer Phillip Kingston builds rapport, creates urgency, and wins on auction day
How I Work
March 11, 2020
Objection handling
9
Closing techniques
8
Productivity & habits
6
- Why genuine curiosity beats scripts in every sales conversation
- The FORD framework turns small talk into actionable intelligence
- Theatre, humor, and warmth are the real auction strategy
Business operating systems
Podcast
Amazon's operating principles: how AWS builds at scale with frugality and rigour
How I Work
February 5, 2020
Business operating systems
10
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Why resource constraints make teams more innovative, not less
- Six-page narratives replace PowerPoint and expose weak thinking
- Amazon's default is finding a path to yes, not gatekeeping ideas