June 1, 2015
Creating moments with your children
How often do you say ‘Just a minute’ to your children? My wife and I found ourselves saying it a lot, as we prioritized our terribly important busyness over our…
December 16, 2014
Sloppiness is a gender issue
I work with a leader who is sloppy: a bit disorganized, he forgets things and at times drops the ball. He is also extremely successful and admired. The thing is,…
October 31, 2014
Strategic Idleness
In a recent survey in the US, 83% of people said they had no time for 'relaxation or thinking' at all. In a knowledge economy, what hope can we have…
September 29, 2014
Embarrassed about being busy
‘How are you?’ The chances are high that your response would be ‘busy’. Most of us today lead hectic lives, crunching through emails, racing between meetings and juggling competing demands.…
May 19, 2014
The Busyness Law
If you saw a man collapse in front of you, in a clearly distressed state and needing help, would you stop and help? The answer is that it depends. In…
May 13, 2014
Big problems and busyness
In the 1940s Enrico Fermi was listening to other distinguished physicists discuss the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Given an enormous universe, it seems scientifically unlikely that life has only occurred…