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Her new book, and these big ideas, are for those who struggle to find a minute to think, or a breath of reflection, in their jam-packed schedules.HCA Healthcare Snaps Up Steward Health Care’s Utah Hospitals. Juliet has spent about twenty years watching the tolerated misery that so often exists in modern work, in which good people with earnest intentions burn themselves out, or lose touch with the satisfaction of professional effort. She has advised Spotify, National Geographic, Vans, and many Fortune 500 companies.
Machan, who set the magazine on a more regular publication schedule.To make work feel less like dancing with a weed whacker and more like placing tiles in a mosaic, we must grasp the foundational metaphor of building a fire. In 1970, Robert Poole purchased Reason with Manuel S. Reason Foundation's primary publication is the magazine, Reason, which was first published in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander, and was originally an infrequently published mimeographed magazine.
We forget this law of nature in every area of our lives—especially at work.I believe that every person out there has a professional spark within them that’s made up of hope, talents, and the desire to contribute, but when they start work, they’re hit by an avalanche of emails, meetings, and urgency, until that lovely spark is extinguished. The space is what makes flames ignite and continue to burn. It’s the space between the combustibles that fire can’t live without. Former Overland, Missouri, police officer Andrew Ringeisen has pleaded guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kenneth Hamilton, and the city has paid 1.8 million to. But your beautiful blaze will never ignite if you forget one critical ingredient: space.Hit and Run.
The name came from looking at the literal white spaces on a lightly scheduled paper calendar, and realizing that those open blocks are an indication of how much possibility that day could hold. Our job is to notice which one or ones tend to carry us away, and then reclaim control of that process.”We need to reinsert “white space” into our days, or time with no assignment—moments when we can breathe, ponder, plan, and create. Activity becomes downright frenzy. Information becomes information overload. Excellence becomes perfectionism.
The Wedge stops us in any moment of life when taking the next action mindlessly would be a mistake. The Wedge pries apart actions or events that, without it, would have been connected—between sitting down and diving in, between a question and your response, or between a meeting and another meeting. The Wedge is a small portion of open time—a few seconds, a minute, or more—inserted between two activities in the timeline of our lives. Stop what you are doing, and white space will rush in.The simplest way to begin using white space is with the Wedge.
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Catch a thief.There are four key drivers that cause companies, teams, and human beings to become overloaded. If you care about strategy, reflection, planning, or creativity, you’re going to need to feed that fire. But recuperation is only one out of many ways that successful people use white space.
Steve Martin was a Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, who was highly aware of the Thief information. Our job is to notice which one or ones tend to carry us away, and then reclaim control of that process.“Work is not a pie-eating contest we must unburden our talented people.”Let’s observe one of them in action. Activity becomes downright frenzy. Information becomes information overload. Excellence becomes perfectionism. Despite being positive and helpful in their basic nature, these forces are also the biggest reason that white space disappears.When taken to extremes, the Thieves of Time become corrupted.
And here’s my proof.” Nothing could top the moment when the committee themselves realized that they (in their pre-release review) had also missed all the offers.All of the Thieves work this way, tricking us into thinking that their endless demands are valid. In each of the 22 pieces of material, (not in a sneaky place like the footer or appendix, just in a place where anyone reading it would have found it) he embedded the following note: “If you’re reading this, email me and I’ll send you an Amazon gift card for $50.” And no one ever did.When the same readiness team came back next year with an even longer list of requested materials, he was able to say, “You don’t need any of this. He said to me, “I knew we were heading offtrack because there was no real focus on making sure the content itself was valuable.” He tested that hypothesis in one of the classic efficiency pranks of all time.
In our client research we see that low-value work costs the typical company one million dollars for every 50 employees in misused talent time—or around one-third of their day. And we can motivate ourselves by recognizing the significant price tag of wasteful touchpoints. I’ll suggest you go even further and adopt a reductive mindset, a way of seeing the world where ridding yourself of the unnecessary becomes second nature.“We need tools not only to strip away waste, but to prevent waste in the first place—especially for email, the Voldemort of busyness.”Work is not a pie-eating contest we must unburden our talented people. Here we are talking about “reductive” in the mathematical sense, constantly looking for what we can cut, jettison, shrink in scope, or let go of.
They are 25 words that I use just about every week, and each question maps back to one of the Thieves’ risks and becomes its remedy:Drive: Is there anything I can let go of?Excellence: Where is “good enough,” good enough?Information: What do I truly need to know?Each person finds resonance with a different question—we’re drawn to the ones we need most. That reductive tool is Simplification Questions. Much of this waste comes from the Thieves whispering in our ear, so we need a tool that will directly disarm them. Bravely and curiously, we must examine each category of action at work to create more capacity for execution.
We need tools not only to strip away waste, but to prevent waste in the first place—especially for email, the Voldemort of busyness.“We get so lost seeking what we think will give us joy that we can’t find our way back. Use a Yellow List.Being reductive can also be preventative. They endlessly and nimbly allow us to amplify the best by removing the rest.
You’ll see how talking these items through is fast, easy, and efficient.Let me give you a glimpse into our company to explain how drastically email can be reduced with this tool. When you are about to send a typed communication, insert a tiny Wedge and ask yourself, “Could this just go on my Yellow List?” When your Yellow List lengthens, schedule a few minutes to share it with the appropriate person. You can keep one list per person, or a master list separated by first names. It’s used to collect all non-time sensitive questions, ideas, and issues for anyone you connect with frequently. But with the use of a Yellow List, especially as a team, you can reduce it all dramatically.The Yellow List is a document where you “park” items that you need to discuss later. Chats are up 45% since the pandemic, and email has increased by 40 billion messages a month.
Use the Wedge to pause and determine when your need to “put it in writing” is appropriate, and when it’s a gratuitous or fear-based habit. Everything else goes onto our Yellow Lists.Sure, there’s a time and place for things to be in writing, not only for your ability to reference them later, but also for managers to occasionally have visibility on a chain of responsibility. If something is time-sensitive, we use texting and the phone. If we’re traveling across crazy time zone differences, we use a bit more email, since calls become hard. Most of the time we use email only for things that are email-dependent, like CCs, clickable links, attachments, lengthy information to share and digest slowly, or legal conversations where we need a record.
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