Mark Cuban’s #1 Productivity Tip
In this episode, I share the #1 piece of time management advice I received from Mark Cuban. What you’re going to learn: Mark Cuban’s #1 productivity tip How to facilitate efficient meetings (even when you’re NOT the facilitator!) What Dustin Moskovitz’s (co-founder of Facebook) meeting schedule looks like at Asana (his new productivity company) Key Quotes: “Mornings are when we are cognitively at our best, so we should be doing our deep thinking work before noon.” “The wrong people dominate meetings.” “People will spend more time discussing the trivial items because they think they have an opinion on it and less time on the important items because they’re afraid to say something stupid.” http://kevinkruse.leadpages.co/qsap (YOUR FREE BONUS: Maximize Your Meetings (Ready-to-print PDF)) http://kevinkruse.leadpages.co/qsap () Read Full Transcript Would you like to 10x your productivity and stop feeling so overworked and overwhelmed? Welcome to the extreme productivity podcast with New York Times best selling author and Inc. 500 entrepreneur Kevin Kruse. Kevin Kruse: Welcome, welcome, welcome. I am Kevin Kruse and I am sharing tips and advice from my new book, "15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management," where I interviewed over 200 highly successful people and boiled down their productivity habits so that you can 10x your productivity. The last episode, I gave you the 9 steps to cut your email processing time in half. Today, I'm going to share what Mark Cuban told me was his number one productivity tip. First, I want to send you a quick start action plan that includes the one page planning tool that millionaires use to schedule their day. All you need to do is send a text message to 44222 with just the word achieve. Head on over to the website productivity-podcast.com and put your email address in there if you'd rather get the free download that way. I cold emailed Mark Cuban asking for an interview, asking him to just tell me his number one secret to time management. Now a lot of people discount Mark Cuban and the other billionaires I reached out to as saying they have nothing to learn from them because they're billionaires. They got lots of servants, and maids, and butlers, and staff, or admins, or whatever. It's a different, they just can't relate. I actually think that is very limiting thinking because yes, of course, Mark Cuban and other people at his level have larger teams of people to get stuff done, but he also has a tremendous amount more than all the rest of us have to look after. I mean, he owns the Dallas Mavericks, he owns Landmark Theaters, he's a TV star co-hosting, investing on Shark Tank. He's written books, he's invested in and is guiding dozens of start-ups and tech companies. He's always being interviewed on TV, on the news programs, on the financial programs. He's a husband. He's a father with three young daughters. This guy has responsibilities and obligations and things to watch at a magnitude that are much greater than most of us can ever imagine. Yet, given all of that, he got back to me faster than any other person that I reached out to. I probably reached out to over 800 people. Almost 300 got back in touch with me, most of them within a day or two. Mark Cuban responded to me in 61 minutes. I was shocked. What is Mark Cubans advice? What's his number one piece of advice for time management and productivity? Well, in typical Cuban style, very direct, very short, kind of funny. He says, "Never take meetings unless someone is writing you a check. Never take meetings unless someone is writing you a check." What's very interesting about this advice is I talked to seven billionaires, most of them made some reference to the evils of meetings. Highly successful people live by the 1440 rule. There's 1,440 minutes in a day, make them all count. They know, more, because of the value of their...
