Cal Newport
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
When can you get them to me?
By 9.30?
All right, you're going to get them to me by 9.30.
And I need those quotes you promised.
Can you just do that right away?
Okay, so you all know what I need from you?
Okay, now I'm going to put my head down and write that report.
So having that meeting ahead of time where everyone says what they need and what they're going to do, that makes that time work better.
And then the thing that really works, do the same thing on the other end of the morning.
All right, you said you were going to work on this, this, and this.
What happened?
So there's accountability on the other end.
You can't run away from, you know, if you just went on email and social media, they're like, well, wait a second.
I thought you were going to write the white paper.
Yeah.
And if other people flake, they don't send you the figures.
They don't send you the quotes.
You're like, I got stuck, man.
I never got this.
And they're there in the same room and they're like, oh, okay, I get it.