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Productivity and Focus

Productivity and Focus

48 episodes carry productivity-tagged segments — covering the 4-day week, focus and attention, and how we measure (and mis-measure) output.

What's been said

  • The 4-day week is a business decision, not a slogan. The show gives owners a crash course in the trade-offs — what compressing the week really demands .
  • Multitasking is a myth. News segments debunk multitasking and six-day workweeks with the underlying science of attention .
  • We're prisoners of our metrics. Rory Sutherland: organisations optimise the numbers they can see, and the wrong metric actively harms real productivity .

The episodes & clips that cover this

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  • Prisoners of our existing metrics

    There's a danger where prisoners of our existing metrics, and that's always a danger with metrics, which is that the metrics you've measured turn out to be less relevant. So I mentioned that fact that

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  • The multitasking myth

    I saw an interesting article this week on The Telegraph website. I'm very cultured. Um, about multitasking. I know we talk about multitasking quite a bit, Al, don't we? Because both of us are generall

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  • If you're convinced: where to start

    But that's life. Someone's gonna break your heart.

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