332: The Scientific Secrets of Daily Scheduling, with Daniel Pink
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Pink: When
Daniel Pink has been listed by Thinkers50 as one of the top business thinkers in the world. His works include New York Times bestsellers, A Whole New Mind*, Drive*, To Sell is Human* and his new book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing*.
Key Points
- Naps boost productivity, but they should be no more than around 20 minutes long.
- Regular nappers get more benefit from naps than occasional nappers.
- We don’t treat breaks with enough seriousness.
We do better on certain types of tasks at certain times of day.
- Peak – Do heavy analytical work in the morning.
- Trough – Do easier administrative work in the early afternoon.
- Recovery – Do work that requires insight in the late afternoon and evening.
Ways to make the most of project midpoints when motivating teams:
- Recognize midpoints.
- Use midpoints to fire up your team.
- Let you team know they are slightly behind when they hit the midpoint.
Resources Mentioned
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us* by Daniel Pink
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing* by Daniel Pink
Book Notes
Download my highlights from When in PDF format (free membership required).
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| 0:00.0 | What's the right time of the day to do your creative work? |
| 0:04.0 | When's the critical point where teams turn the corner? |
| 0:08.0 | How about this one? Should you take a nap today? |
| 0:11.0 | On this episode, Daniel Pink returns to the show to share the secrets of perfect timing. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders episode 332. |
| 0:21.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:27.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:33.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:37.5 | Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become |
| 0:45.2 | a better leader. Leadership, of course, so much complexity on all the things we're thinking |
| 0:50.8 | about on a daily basis of how to be effective for others |
| 0:53.2 | and for our organizations and one of the things that leaders consistently talk about and think |
| 0:59.7 | about not only themselves but with their teams and in their organizations |
| 1:04.0 | is the concept of timing. |
| 1:06.0 | When is the right time |
| 1:08.0 | not only to move on something, but also |
| 1:10.0 | how do we think about timing |
| 1:12.0 | in the context of our own lives? |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm really glad today to be welcoming back to the show, |
| 1:19.0 | someone who's been doing a ton of research on timing over the last couple of years and it's going to help us |
| 1:24.7 | to really navigate some of the research but also some of the practical steps we can take around |
| 1:31.0 | timing. |
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