In this episode, Vishal explores the gap between intent and action using insights from Harvard Business Review, Columbia Business School, and cognitive science. He breaks down the big blockers and shares two practical tools to del with this dilemma.
References:
1) If Strategy Is So Important, Why Don’t We Make Time for It? https://hbr.org/2018/06/if-strategy-is-so-important-why-dont-we-make-time-for-it
2) How CEOs Manage Time: https://hbr.org/2018/07/how-ceos-manage-time
3) The Leadership Gap: Understanding Strategy Execution Failure: https://balancedscorecard.org/blog/the-leadership-gap-understanding-strategy-execution-failure
4) Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol: https://business.columbia.edu/sites/default/files-efs/pubfiles/19293/Conspicuous%20Consumption%20of%20Time%20JCR.pdf
5) Why Strategic Idleness Can Drive Breakthrough Thinking: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-strategic-idleness-can-drive-breakthrough-thinking
6) The Business Case for Reflection: Brief Pauses Boost Performance by 23%: https://hbr.org/2014/10/reflecting-on-work-improves-job-performance
Music Credit: Switch It Up, performed by Silent Partner, from the YouTube Studio Audio Library