Conquering Busyness & Taking Time to Think with Juliet Funt | The Good Leadership Podcast #60

Juliet Funt is the best selling author of A Minute to Think, which explains how to reclaim creativity, conquer busyness, and do great work.

She is also a speaker and consultant. She has advised companies such as Spotify, National Geographic, Vans, Costco, Pepsi, Nike, Sephora, and ESPN.

The Conformity Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrTk6DsEJ2Q 

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Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:06) Juliet’s Background

(02:13) What is WhiteSpace?

(04:50) Insatiability at work

(07:02) Conformity dimension

(08:24) Tool: Empathy Gap

(12:13) Misery and money

(14:07) Tool: Taking strategic pauses from work

(17:52) Tool: Tuna, Krill, and reductive mindset

(21:09) WhiteSpace and guilt

(22:32) First Thief: Drive

(24:34) Simplification questions

(25:07) Second Thief: Excellence

(26:09) Third Thief: Information

(28:01) Fourth Thief: Activity 

(29:17) Tool: Power Distance

(31:30) Conclusion