Nick Sonnenberg is an operational efficiency expert. He helps people, usually businesses and institutions, get things done. About 60% of our time at work is spent on "work about work," he says. The result is that we feel like we don't have enough hours in the day.
Nick Sonnenberg doesn’t believe there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. That’s because when his business was in crisis mode, he developed a framework for eliminating inefficiencies and preventing the sort of metawork – working on working – that leads to scavenger hunts and meetings that could be emails, and for that matter, email runarounds that get everyone ever farther from inbox zero. He turned that framework into a consultancy business, and put it all together in a new book for people who feel underwater titled Come up For Air.