When to Say Yes: The Five Steps to Protect Your Time

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Eric Liu: When to Say Yes is a new book by productivity expert and author of The 5 steps to protect your time. He says the title originally referred to when to say no, but we don't like to do that so why not change it? Liu: From my perspective, it's almost a saying yes is kind of a special privilege. So I want to make sure that my goals, my time, my actions, all those good things are aligned.

Don Khouri has spent decades studying productivity as a PhD in human and organizational systems, corporate VP, speaker, and executive coach. In his quest to understand the secrets of the most productive people, he discovered the missing link in current productivity systems: they tell you how to manage projects and to-do lists, but don't show you how to determine what gets put on your plate in the first place.

Don's new book is 'When to say Yes - The 5 Steps to Protect Your Time'. In this episode Don shares ways to protect your time, knowing how to triage requests and knowing when to say yes to incoming opportunities.

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