# time management
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12:24The Meeting Experiment: Cancelling a Week of MeetingsLeanne Elliott: Yeah. Chris Lovett: So we'd probably not waffle around for 15 minutes, or complete, you know, question the work that we would be working on as a team. And I'd be like, is this the most important thing we'EP 325 · 6 Aug 2026·interview· 12:24–17:3030:38The 'zero to five' strategy — a 15-minute consensusAl Elliott: So Mamie's given us all these strategies for managing difficult meetings, the preparation, the frameworks, the techniques for dealing with challenging participants. But here's what I love. She's also honest aEP 241 · 16 Oct 2025·interview· 30:38–35:4943:34Workplace Surgery: The calendar bullyAl Elliott: All right. The next question says, my productivity is being hijacked by a calendar bully. I'm a senior developer who blocks out 2-hour deep work sessions in my calendar 3 times weekly for complex coding, an aEP 182 · 25 Mar 2025·workplace surgery· 43:34–46:4321:18Giving value-add time back to the businessLeanne Elliott: Like the idea of AI giving value-add time back to the business by taking away that more kind of administrative transactional grunt work, if we're being honest. And I can't imagine there's many salespeopleEP 169 · 6 Feb 2025·interview· 21:18–26:0225:56Making time for the meetings that matterAl Elliott: So, let's just stop for a second, because I want to ask the question that our listeners are probably asking. This sounds like a lot of work. How the heck am I going to find time to do all these one-to-one meeEP 87 · 4 Apr 2024·interview· 25:56–30:2043:59Words of encouragement for leadersManeesh Goyal: As you just mentioned, your time is, is not only limited, but also your role isn't to be everything for everyone. Really, who you need to be as a CEO. Who you really need to be is you need to look at your EP 56 · 14 Sept 2023·interview· 43:59–50:2986:35No. 8: Respect people's timeLeanne Elliott: I remember doing a wellbeing audit for a client and they couldn't understand why people were unhappy when they would let them go home early from work. Like, they had a really great day and they'd be like,EP 34 · 12 Apr 2023·other· 86:35–88:15
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