Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Makaitas.

Hello and welcome to episode 867 with Richard Medcalf.

We got Richard back because he's got a boatload of fresh insights associated with

how to make time for strategy, stop being so darn busy and really feel like you're making some traction and

having some more peace along the way because you're not crazy busy overwhelmed all the time.

So you'll learn one, why productivity won't solve busyness.

Two, the crucial question that makes you more strategic.

And three, the powerful reframe that slashes busy work.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, please drop on by

awesome at your job.com slash ep 867.

And while they're check out some of our handy resources, such as the Goldnugget email list, which gives you access to

a summary of the actionable wisdom that Richard shared in this conversation,

go and write your inbox as well as unlocking the whole vault on demand of these summary

writeups, those the Goldnuggets, to be found at awesome at your job.com.

And here's a bit about Richard, Richard Metcalf describes himself as what you get if you were to put a McKenzie consultant,

a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender.

He's a founder of X Quadrant, which helps elite leaders reinvent their success formula and multiply their impact.

His personal clients include CEOs of billionaire corporations, successful serial entrepreneurs, and founders of tech unicorns.

Richard has advised C-suite executives for over 25 years after a master's at Oxford University,

where he came top in his year, he joined a premier strategy consultancy and later became the youngest ever partner.

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