Cold Call

Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness

Aug 15, 2023

Real estate entrepreneur Ryan Serhant discusses his time management techniques, reflecting on his career during the pandemic. Topics include prioritization, maximizing time, balancing work and family, starting a company while pursuing an MBA, and living with intention.

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Ryan Serhant meticulously counts and allocates every minute of his day, prioritizing and maximizing productivity.

He structures his schedule to have dedicated time for his family, making intentional compromises to align his personal and professional life.

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The Central Issue and Cold Call

The podcast episode discusses the central issue of whether Ryan should wait for a better time to start something new or branch out on his own and set up his own business. It introduces the concept of a cold call, where students are asked what they would do if they were in Ryan's position. The episode also provides insight into how the case was created and why Ryan was chosen as the protagonist.

Introduction

5min

Working on a Harvard Business School case with Ryan Serhant

5min

Maximizing Time and Prioritizing Tasks

11min

Professor Ashley's Dilemma

5min

Managing Time and Reflecting on Goals

3min

Real estate entrepreneur, television star, husband, and father Ryan Serhant is incredibly busy and successful. He starts his days at 4:00 am and often doesn’t end them until 11:00 pm. But, it wasn’t always like that.

In 2020, just a few months after the US began to shut down in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, Serhant had time to reflect on his career as a real estate broker in New York City. He wondered if the period of selling real estate at record highs was over and considered whether he should stay at his current real estate brokerage or launch his own brokerage during a pandemic. Each option had very different implications for his time and flexibility.

Harvard Business School associate professor Ashley Whillans and her co-author Hawken Lord (MBA 2023) discuss Serhant’s time management techniques and consider the lessons we can all learn about making time our most valuable commodity in the case, “Ryan Serhant: Time Management for Repeatable Success.”

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Cold Call

Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

The Central Issue and Cold Call

Time Management and the Thousand Minute Rule

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Lessons from Ryan's Time Management

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