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Challenge Beliefs

Put yourself in the shoes of one of my interviewees. You’ve been identified as an efficient collaborator: you create high value for others and consume comparatively little time collaborating, as shown by network analytics. And what is your reward for this accomplishment? A ninety-minute interview with me—the flaky academic—to learn how you are pulling this off.

As you can imagine, the first portion of the interview, while important, is relatively mundane. We focus on how you use your calendar differently. We look at the nuances of how you run meetings or use email that make you more efficient, or how you coach others to use your time more productively. In general, it’s a dialogue that stays at a fairly unemotional level as ...

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