The productive power of unstructured time


The most strategically productive hours in a senior leader's week are often the hours that show no visible output, and the calendar that successfully eliminates those hours produces a leader who can no longer think the kinds of thoughts the role needs. This is one of the less-discussed paradoxes of modern senior leadership. The same calendar discipline that lets a leader hold an over-saturated week without dropping anything is the discipline that quietly eliminates the conditions for the...