Treat Email Like Laundry — and Other Tips from Google’s Productivity Expert

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The amount of work we need to get done seems to grow daily. To avoid becoming overwhelmed, we have to become more productive than ever. Laura Mae Martin has advice on what has worked well at one of the biggest organizations in the world. She's the Executive Productivity Advisor at Google and shares the practical ways she helps her colleagues and company executives manage their time, calendars, email inboxes, and more. Martin is the author of the new book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing.

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0:39.6	Check out Think Fast, Talk Smart, wherever you get podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish. We have a complicated relationship with productivity.
1:10.0	Businesses like to look at outputs, revenue goals, outbound calls, completed projects,
1:16.0	maybe it's lines of code written or the promotions won by your team members,
1:21.0	but you have your own goals too, and it's not always that hitting the established targets
1:26.6	is the same thing as feeling really productive.
1:29.7	Part of that comes from how expectations seem to keep going up.
1:33.1	Each day we're supposed to churn out more
1:35.1	and the number of hours we need to be on
1:37.4	to get our work done seems to rise.
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