by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Productivity, Teams
Reframing Your Midday Lull in Productivity Is Actually the Key to a Better Work Day It’s the middle of the day and you’ve already been in a few meetings and crushed the first part of your to-do list. You feel a yawn coming on and immediately leap from your desk. Up...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Planning & Strategy, Productivity
Modern Management’s Fetish That’s Getting in the Way of Your Success As a Western society, we are steeped in the belief that being a high-performer means doing more, all at once. We’ve been conditioned to attach enormous value to being endlessly busy, and we conflate...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Productivity
The Actual Reason Everyone Is Exhausted at Work and the Problem with Juggling Water I’d like you to imagine something. As your manager, I’ve just given you a pitcher of water and tasked you with taking it from one side of the room to another. Accomplishing the goal is...
by Brandi Olson | Productivity, Teams
The Cultural Illusion That’s Keeping Your Organization Inefficient During a recent live podcast discussion, my client had a confession for me: Her organization was in the process of shifting to a 4-day work week and the mood of the team wasn’t what she was...
by Brandi Olson | Planning & Strategy, Productivity
Prioritize Your Change Capital Investment I’ll give you a quick example of how I saw this play out for an organization that I’ve been working with for the last year. This is a data analytics firm, and they had been planning on doing a big organizational...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Productivity
What Is Your Baton? I love track and field events. I am captivated by the speed, strategy, and in the case of the relay races, by the collaboration required to pass a baton at record speeds. But, watching the 4×400 relay race at the 2016 Olympic Games, I couldn’t...
