Productivi-Tree: The Human Side of Productivity

Jason P. Carroll grew Champion National Security to 2,500 employees, sold it at the end of 2020, and then woke up with no role, no team, and no clear purpose. The same period brought a lockdown, the loss of a community...

Nearly all productivity advice assumes you get to keep what you build. Scherrie L. Prince spends her working Life proving that assumption wrong. She is a trial attorney, a JD MBA, managing partner of Prince & Associates...

You build a strong case. You bring the data. You explain your reasoning. And the other person still says they need to think about it. Patrick van der Burght has spent 25 years explaining why that happens. He is a...

Career strategist Sonal Bahl, who has screened 250,000 resumes as a former HR Director at GE and PwC, breaks down why high performers get passed over for promotions and shares the Candy, Vitamin, Painkiller framework...

Sameer Ranjan holds a US patent for an AI platform that measures the nine soft skills your resume never shows. He gives the resume about eighteen months before it becomes obsolete for most white collar roles. He started...

AI has made information cheap, but wisdom is more expensive than ever. Andrew Winton, CMO at Digital Advisory and creator of BOOM Marketing, explains why executives confuse the two, what governed advisory looks like...

Most productivity advice focuses on improving your output, but it often misses the source of real progress: the quality of your thinking. Michael Lukich, analytics executive, former Georgetown professor, and author of...

Adam Tilove spent decades watching brilliant ideas die before they became anything real. In this episode, he breaks down why initiating tasks is harder than doing them, names the six emotional "F-loads" that make you...

Noémi Beres, founder of Podcast Connections, breaks down two sides of podcasting most professionals ignore. First: how to use podcast listening as a genuine productivity advantage -- learning faster, matching content to...

Your company has a meditation app, a mental health awareness poster, and maybe a yoga class at lunch. And yet people are burning out faster than ever. Jody Brooks calls this wellness washing: performing wellbeing...

Hanna Bauer, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Baldrige Examiner, and founder of HEARTnomics, makes the case that your workday has the same waste problems as a factory floor, and the most expensive one is untapped human...

Key Takeaways People don't make decisions rationally -- they make them emotionally, then justify with logic. The best communicators, leaders, and salespeople know this and act accordingly. "How you do anything is how...

Timothy Ward grew up surviving chaos through sport. Now at 61, he is a longevity coach and author of The GOAT Within, working with executives aged 45 to 80. In this episode he walks through the Fitness Quadrant...

Laura Vanderkam has tracked every hour of her life for 11 years. In this episode she reveals what she found -- including that she was wrong about her own work hours by 10 hours a week -- and shares the exact system she...

Florian Kemmerich is an impact investor who mobilised nearly $1 billion in impact capital and built a seven-step vocating framework used at Oxford and IMD. In this episode he explains why most productivity problems are...