The Essentials: Being Productive

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Hbr, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Careers, Progress, Harvard, Business/entrepreneurship, Workplace, Human, Management, Resources, Gender, Women, Business, Business/careers, Equality

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Alice Boyes, a writer and former clinical psychologist, shares the principles and practices that keep her creative and productive, but not busy. She gives Emily and a social worker guidance on where to focus their energy, as well as paring down their (and your) to-dos to what’s feasible? and actually worth doing.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com-womenitwork.
0:25.3	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.2	I'm Emily Caulfield.
0:34.0	This episode is part of our series, The Essentials, in which women working for the public good
0:38.3	contribute their wisdom and practicality to discussions of key career skills.
0:44.2	For me, productivity is ultimately about making work easier.
0:48.0	When I feel productive, I feel a sense of progress and confidence.
0:52.0	Being efficient with what I need to do helps me make more space for what I want to do,
0:56.6	and how I want to steer my career.
0:59.6	Some days, I check off most things on my to-do list.
1:02.5	In other days, I struggle to push through a single daunting assignment.
1:06.8	Kate Troutman offered to join me in sorting through these feelings and frustrations with
1:10.4	an expert.
1:11.7	As you'll hear, she's got some too.
1:14.2	Kate's a social worker at a trauma center that treats people who are critically ill or
1:18.6	severely injured.
1:20.4	And her job is to coordinate as many resources for them as she can before they leave the
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