1-2-3: Whole Foods CEO’s secret productivity hack, Anthony Bourdain’s life advice, Steve Job’s advice on starting a company
1 Actionable Concept, 2 Best Tweets all under 3 Minutes
1 Actionable Concept, 2 Best Tweets all under 3 Minutes
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What’s in store 🏠
Whole Foods Market CEO’s secret productivity hack
Anthony Bourdain’s life advice
Steve Job’s advice on starting a company
Without further ado, let’s begin! 👏
1 Action
Posted by: CNBC
Tweet Link: 🔗
Whole Foods Market CEO Jason Buechel has one secret productivity hack: 20- or 50-minute meetings. 🕰️
On a typical day, Jason has 10 meetings or more.
He encourages staff to hold 20- and 50-minute meetings to free up 10-minute intervals in between — during which they can work on any action items just discussed.
He would also use those 10-minute windows for running ad hoc meetings with direct reports or dealing with pressing issues that might pop up.
He says, “It’s important… so I don’t get stuck in meeting after meeting.”
What do you think of this productivity tip?
Lesson 📚
Schedule 20- or 50- minute meetings to free up 10-minute intervals to get things done.
2 Tweets
Anthony Bourdain’s advice on life
Reddit Link: 🔗
Anthony Bourdain, a renowned American chef, author & TV personality, once said:
"There's a guy in my head. All he wants to do is lay in bed all day long, smoke pot, and watch old movies. My life is a series of stratagems, to avoid, and outwit that guy".
All of us has this one guy in our head.
What's your strategy to outwit him?
Steve Job’s advice on starting a company
Posted by: @FoundersPodcast
Tweet Link: 🔗
From the tweet:
Steve Jobs was asked:
What advice would you give someone interested in starting their own company?
This was his answer:
"My first question is always: What is your passion? What is it you want to do in your company?"
Most of them say: I don't know.
My advice is go get a job as a busboy until you figure it out.
You've got to be passionate about something. You shouldn't start a company because you want to start a company.
Almost every company I know of got started because nobody else believed in the idea and the last resort was to start the company.
That's how Apple got started.
That's how Pixar got started.
That’s how Intel got started.
You need to have passion about your idea, and you need to feel so strongly about it that you're willing to risk a lot.
Starting a company is so hard that if you're not passionate about it, you will give up. If you're simply doing it because you want to have a company, forget it.
It's so much work and at times is so mentally draining.
The hardest thing I've ever done is to start a company.
It's the funniest thing, but it's the hardest thing, and if you're not passionate about your goal or your reason for doing it, you will give up.
You will not see it through. So, you must have a very strong sense of what you want.
You have to need to run such a business and know you can do it better than anyone else."
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