You will only get predictable and consistent results with a process or a system. This explains why lottery winners and heirs of significant fortunes often live in a state of permanent anxiety: They know that their success is not repeatable. […]
Productivity
Statistics show that the amount of scientific data doubles every two years. At the same time, the impact of individual scientific articles is diminishing. This means that your ability to distinguish noise from signal becomes more important and at the […]
Is being lazy a strategic asset? I think it is. When the Greek hero Heracles had to clean out the Augean stables full of manure, he realized that even with his God-like powers, it would take him months of hard […]
Tired of ineffective, boring and low energy meetings? Take ownership of the following three standards to end meeting madness once and for all: A. Meeting Content A meeting only has three objectives: Everything else can probably be done by something different […]
After creating the statue of David, the great artist Michelangelo was asked how he had accomplished this masterpiece. Michelangelo answered that he looked at the original block of uncut marble, imagined David hidden in there, and simply took out everything […]
“Do high performance routines and habits stifle creativity and innovation?” It was a great question from an audience member, after I had given a keynote on how the best get better. My position is that routines and habits are actually […]
A force multiplier is a factor that gives you the ability to accomplish greater feats than without it. In the context of high-performance it means increased productivity: The ability to achieve the same (or better) results in less time. The following […]
Last week I had a short chat with a personal assistant. She incidentally mentioned she was still occupied making minutes of last week’s management team meeting. That came as a surprise to me: Was that really the highest and best […]
My iPhone spontaneously and faithfully tells me every week how much time I have spent on screen time. This metric tracks my phone use, similar to metrics like daily calorie intake, monthly spending, etc. The idea is that what you focus […]
The purpose of thinking is to stop thinking. It means that thinking is a high energy consuming activity: It takes a lot of effort to simply think. That’s why humans are designed in such a way that whenever we have […]
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