This is Steva Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's episode is a bit unusual. It includes a rant, a tip, and a peek behind the Get It Done

guy scenes. Let's jump in. First, the rant. I was recently asked to contribute to a roundup,

where they ask a bunch of people a question

and publish the answers in a big long list. They asked me a question about leadership that,

frankly, I thought was oversimplifying and it made many bad assumptions about the issue.

Plus, many of the people on the list don't necessarily know anything about leadership.

They're likely to have the same cultural, motivational leadership points that sound great and don't work. You know the genre, the soundbite equivalent of a beautifully

photographed poster of a whale, with the big word leadership underneath. It's really inspirational,

especially if you have a fetish for gigantic aquatic mammals, but it's not a great source of

high-quality information

to incorporate into your professional development. I tried to explain that the question as

phrased was the wrong question, and the answers might not be as, well, as

meaty as they could be. But they were adamant. They knew what was best. After all, they had

a whale poster. So, under the

theory that any exposure is good exposure, I agreed. I sent them my soundbite, and at least I tried

to hint in my soundbite that there was more to the issue. But I doubt it came across.

Yesterday, they sent me the link to the final article for me to tweet, Facebook, Instagram,

and send far and wide to my audience. It would be great.

People would see me in the presence of other brilliant, wise practitioners, and would subscribe

to my podcast in droves. But, well, it's a list of 44 people, and I'm like number 30. And the

page is formatted so it's hard to read, and who scrolls that far anyway. This isn't really good

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