The busiest office workers are interrupted every two minutes during core hours. That figure comes from Microsoft’s own data on how people use its software, and anyone who runs a team will recognise it. Most productivity hacks are written for a calendar you control. The ones worth keeping are built for the calendar you actually […]
The biggest client calls at nine on a Monday to say they are leaving. By ten, two things need to happen. Someone has to work out what the lost revenue does to payroll, which projects pause and who tells the team what. And someone has to stand in front of that team and give them […]
You said yes to the extra project on Tuesday. On Wednesday you covered a colleague’s client call, and on Thursday you stayed until nine rewriting a deck that was never yours. Nobody asked you to feel resentful about any of it. You just do. If you want to know how to stop being a people […]
You have two offers on the table, or two candidates, or two ways to spend the next year, and you have been going round in circles for a week. What you are looking for is a decision making framework, something that turns the loop into a choice. Most of the ones you will find are […]
You sit down to do the one piece of work that matters today, and forty minutes later you have answered six messages, read two articles and started nothing. Learning how to stay focused at work is less about willpower than about design. Attention breaks because the environment keeps breaking it, and the fix is to […]
You have opened the same email four times this week. It asks for a yes or a no, and each time you close it with a note to think about it later. Nothing new has come in. The decision has simply become heavier every time you looked away. Rapid decision making is the fix for […]
Most executives believe their decisions are limited by the quality of their analysis. Better data, a sharper model, one more week of work. The largest study of real business decisions found the opposite, and the size of the gap is the reason structured decision making is worth taking seriously rather than treating as bureaucracy. Process […]
Ask how to be more productive and you will be handed the same three numbers within a minute. It takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to recover from an interruption. Multitasking costs you 40 percent of your productive time. The average attention span is now 47 seconds. Two of those three cannot be traced to […]
It is nine in the evening, the same question is in front of you for the third time today, and you can feel yourself reaching for whichever answer ends the conversation fastest. You already know the phrase for this. Everyone does. The phrase is decision fatigue, and the popular version of it is oversold. The […]
Most people who want to know how to say no at work are not looking for the words. They know the words. What they want is a way to refuse that does not cost them their reputation, and they have concluded, usually correctly, that a plain no does. So they say yes, deliver late, and […]
The offer email arrives. The number is fine, maybe slightly less than you hoped, and the recruiter is waiting for an answer. Most people say yes. Knowing how to negotiate salary at this exact point is worth more than at any other moment in the […]
The busiest office workers are interrupted every two minutes during core hours. That figure comes from Microsoft’s own data on how people use its software, and anyone who runs a team will recognise it. Most productivity hacks are written for a calendar you control. The […]
The alarm goes off at six. You hit snooze twice, get up at half past, and spend the first hour of the day feeling like someone else is driving. Most advice on how to become a morning person starts with the alarm: set it earlier […]
A project lands that your team cannot carry. The product launch is in four months, the two engineers you need do not exist on your payroll, and a permanent hire will take most of that time just to find. Staff augmentation is the usual answer: […]
Most people meet Alex Hormozi through a video clip: a muscular man in a T-shirt explaining, with some impatience, why your business is not making money. The books are better than the clips. Alex Hormozi books are short, blunt manuals on three problems every business […]
Most of the decisions that shape a company are made on an ordinary afternoon, between two other meetings, by someone who is slightly tired. Decision making in business mostly happens in small moments: a yes sent from a phone, a hire approved because the role […]
It is a Sunday evening and you are dreading the morning again. Not the workload, which you can handle, but the sameness of it. You have been good at this job for fifteen years and you can picture the next fifteen with no surprises in […]
The email from HR arrives on a Friday afternoon. Your last day is in three weeks, and in the attachment there is a line about what happens to your 401k. Within a day, somebody in your network has suggested an advisor who can “help with […]
The biggest client calls at nine on a Monday to say they are leaving. By ten, two things need to happen. Someone has to work out what the lost revenue does to payroll, which projects pause and who tells the team what. And someone has […]
You open a document to write one paragraph. Four minutes later you are reading an email you did not need to read, with two new tabs open and the paragraph unwritten. If that sounds like most of your working day, you are in good company, […]
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