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Ep. 216: Deep Walking To Work Less

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Leaning Into the Busy Periods

When you work with outside teams or outside clients, to some degree, booms and busts are unavoidable. If you do not implicitly have a protocol in place for how you interact, they will interact with you in the worst possible way. The other point I want to make my two-part answer is protocols. You can use implicit protocols where you're laying out when and how discussion and information moves.

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