Hi everyone, it's Muriel. We're hard at work on our new season of coaching real leaders,

and I'm excited to share that we'll begin dropping new episodes on October 7th.

While we get these new episodes together, I have something special to share with you.

It's an episode from an award-winning podcast at the Financial Times that I think you'll like.

It's called Working It. Every Wednesday, the FTs Isabel Barrick speaks to experts on how to become a

better manager and leader, helps people make sense of the trends shaping the world of work,

and sources advice on how to improve productivity.

There's one particular episode of working it that I really love, and I want to share it with you here.

It's about why different people work better at different times of the day. We all experience

peaks and troughs over the course of a working day, and knowing how to manage

them can make us much more productive.

In this episode, bestselling author Daniel Pink explains why people work best at different times

of the day and how we can harness those differences to do our best work.

I hope you enjoy the conversation.

Here it is.

I think the key is to give people greater sovereignty over the when of their work.

Measure people by the results and allow them to configure their schedules in a way that works for them.

Most people actually want to do a decent job and care about their work, so give them the freedom to do that.

Hello, and welcome to Working It from the Financial Times.

I'm Isabel Berwick.

If you're anything like me, your energy levels vary drastically throughout the day. I start strong,

fuel myself with caffeine, then slump after lunch. Daily ups and downs are a fact of life, but that doesn't mean we can't work around them. In fact, learning how to manage changes in your energy levels

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