Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm

specializing in retaining, engaging, and developing talent. And today, we are going to talk about

how productive you are, and whether that continues to be the right question to ask or the right

metric to chase. Years ago, Saturday Night Live aired a spoof

commercial of a new razor called the Gillette Mach 3. And then a few years later, they did

another spoof for the Chic Quatro, which, as you may have surmised, had four blades, beating

its predecessor, the Mach 3. The commercials were funny because in real

life, the razor companies really kept adding more blades to their products, because more was

always better than less. The commercials, yes, they are goofy, but they served their purpose. They

called out this mentality, this drive for more that nobody seemed to be

questioning. And I think about those ads sometimes today as I'm watching the people around me,

friends, colleagues, clients in all industries just continue to strive to get more things done.

Everyone around me is so bleeping busy all the time, racing between meetings, shooting

off just one more presentation or spreadsheet, all while browsing the productivity section

in the app store.

And as I watch this play out, my heart hurts a little bit because burnout and quiet quitting and great

resignations and reconsiderations, they continue to dominate the workplace headlines. And friends,

something has got to give. Continuing to chase more, better, faster is kind of breaking us.

But I don't think the counterpoint to this has to be less

fewer slower. I think it's not about speed or quantity. I think it's about quality and impact.

Neil Pasricha is an author who created the 4S framework for meaningful work. And I kind of think

this is what holds the key. It shifts our thinking from how much work to how much good work. And I kind of think this is what holds the key. It shifts our thinking from how much

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