Anna Wintour
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Podcast Appearances
is that she's direct and clear.
She is kind, but not nice.
Kind people will tell you something a nice person won't.
She will give you the feedback.
You know exactly what she's thinking.
There are no mixed messages.
And I think a large part of her success is due to the fact that she's decisive and clear.
And I think it gets rid of the wrong people very quickly.
And the right people love it.
Okay, I want to talk about one of the things that gets talked about a lot online with Anna, which is her daily routine.
It's practically become internet folklore among productivity geeks.
She wakes up around five, she plays an hour of tennis at dawn, and then consumes a whole bunch of news, British, US newspapers, by breakfast.
By 8 a.m., she's in the office, perfectly coiffured with her Starbucks cappuccino, which is her version of breakfast in hand.
I got that from the 80 questions video.
But her routine's most viral element is perhaps her wardrobe strategy.
I have a wardrobe full of print dresses.
So every morning, I just go to one of my print dresses of choice and put it on.
It makes decision-making a lot easier.
That simple hack from the queen of fashion revealed in her Go Ask Anna video series is cited as a brilliant way to just figure out what to wear in the morning.
I mean, think of Steve Jobs.