867: How to Stop Being Busy and Start Being Strategic with Richard Medcalf

867: How to Stop Being Busy and Start Being Strategic with Richard Medcalf

Richard Medcalf reveals how to free up time for the strategic activities that will advance your career.


— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why productivity won’t solve busy-ness.

2) The crucial question that makes you more strategic.

3) The powerful reframe that slashes busywork.


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— ABOUT RICHARD —

Richard Medcalf describes himself as "what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender".

He is the founder of Xquadrant, which helps elite leaders reinvent their 'success formula' and multiply their impact. His personal clients include CEOs of billion-dollar corporations, successful serial entrepreneurs, and the founders of tech 'unicorns'.

Richard has advised the C-Suite for over 25 years. After a Masters at Oxford University, where he came top in his year, he joined a premier strategy consultancy and later became the youngest-ever Partner. He then spent 11 years at tech giant Cisco in an elite team reporting to the CEO.

Richard is bi-national English/French, lives near Paris, and is happily married and the proud father of two. He has an insatiable love for spicy food and the electric guitar.

• Book: Making TIME for Strategy: How to be less busy and more successful

• Strategy Score Test: XQuadrant.com/awesomeatyourjob

• LinkedIn: Richard Medcalf


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

• Book: Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara

• Past episode: 080: Finding and Doing the One Thing with Jay Papasan

• Past episode: 544: How to Build Exceptional Influence in a Noisy Digital Age with Richard Medcalf

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