Make Your Task List Work for You, with Liane Davey
6/1/202639 min
Liane Davey: Thoughtload
For the past 25 years, Liane Davey has researched and advised teams on how to achieve high performance. She is the author of You First and The Good Fight and is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. She is the author of the new book Thoughtload: Manage the Madness and Free Your Team to Do Great Work (Amazon, Bookshop)*.
We all love to hate our task lists. However, we can do a lot better with just a bit of strategy. In this conversation, Liane and I explore how to make our task...
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Oh, we all love to hate our task lists. However, we can do a lot better with just a bit of strategy. In this episode, how to make our task list work for us instead of against us. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 785. [upbeat music] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. [upbeat music] Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stachowiak. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps leaders thrive at key inflection points. You know, one of the challenges that we all face every single day when we wake up, when we get working, is, what do we do? Like, [laughs] literally, what are we going to spend our time on? We all have different systems for doing that. Some of us keep it in our head. Some of us look at our calendar first, and many of us have a task list. How do we use our task list in a way that actually makes it work for us and not work against us, which happens so often when we start making lists? Today, a conversation on how we can look at this aspect of time management, of productivity, to help us to be better and make our task list work for us. I'm so pleased to welcome Leigh Anne Davey to the show. For the past 25 years, Leigh Anne has researched and advised