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Let me ask you this question – how much time do you spend every day answering your emails?

As I write this newsletter, I want to thank you for reading it and everyone enquiring about it over the last weeks. I haven’t been

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝟭% 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆? When discussing with team leaders about performance, this is a topic that is often brought up. In these conversations, I often hear: “𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺” or “𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺”.

Over a decade ago, I skydived in the South of France for the first time. Strapped to my instructor, I jumped (or more precisely, I froze and then was thrown) out of the plane and discovered a brand new world.

Imagine a workplace where meetings don’t exist… No more hours wasted in conference rooms 🕑 No more disruptions to your important tasks 🤹‍♂️ And no more feeling like your time is being wasted 🗑 What if we challenged the idea of meetings and explored how getting rid of them could greatly improve our productivity and overall performance?

Are you sabotaging your success by refusing to ask for help? As humans, we are natural pattern-seekers, yet we often overlook the toll it takes on our well-being and performance when we try to do everything ourselves.

When it comes to performance, they are two big aspects I like to discuss: how to elevate it – and how to sustain it. The importance of each depends on the context.

Oftentimes I hear this managerial conundrum, where companies have all their ducks in a row and yet the results are not there.  The metrics to