The thinking deficit

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,...

MOTT: Your Choice

I came across a question recently that stopped me cold: What do you do most of the time? Not what you wish you did or what you tell yourself you should do. What actually fills your days? The real question beneath it is more unsettling: Are you satisfied with what you...

Monday is a myth

We’ve invented a calendar of false starts. Monday. The first of the month. Q1. January 1st. These aren’t beginnings—they’re permission slips we write ourselves to delay what matters. The founder who waits until Monday to make that difficult call. The...

The meeting tax

Your calendar isn’t filling up. It’s compounding. Every meeting you accept doesn’t just cost an hour. It costs preparation beforehand, context-switching afterward, and the follow-up meetings it spawns. Like credit card debt, the interest continues to...

Storm clouds threaten productivity

You wouldn’t plan a beach day when storm clouds gather. You wouldn’t start a workout when it’s time to sleep. Yet we wreck our flow daily with predictable disruptions. We schedule meetings that serve no purpose. We check emails during deep work. We...