by unthink | Jun 7, 2026 | Blog Post
Cyril Northcote Parkinson said it in 1955. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Seventy years later, we still don’t believe him. Give a task two hours, it takes two hours. Give it two days, it takes two days. Not because the work is...
by unthink | Apr 21, 2026 | Blog Post
I have sat in enough leadership rooms to know the default move. Someone misses a deadline. A project stalls. The energy in the team feels off. And almost without thinking, the conversation turns to the individual. Their skills. Their commitment. Their fit. I have...
by unthink | Apr 6, 2026 | Blog Post
We throw away the junk mail without opening it. Glance, sort, trash. It takes seconds. We feel nothing about it. But the email? That is different. It follows us everywhere. We carry it in our pocket. We wake to it. We let it interrupt dinners, derail mornings, and...
by unthink | Mar 28, 2026 | Blog Post
We tell ourselves we don’t have enough time. The calendar is full. The inbox never empties. The list grows faster than we work through it. But time is not scarce. Focus is. We have built environments that make sustained attention nearly impossible. Tabs stacked...
by unthink | Jan 17, 2026 | Blog Post
Most leaders are drowning in action but starving for thought. Here’s what the research tells us: Harvard Business Review found that CEOs spend less than 3% of their time on strategic thinking. McKinsey reports that executives spend 72% of their time in meetings,...
