Are all your productivity tools actually making you...less productive? The average knowledge worker toggles between platforms 1,200 times a day. That’s four hours lost just reorienting your brain. Email, Slack, project tools, shared docs… they were supposed to help us, not hijack our focus.

In this video, I’ll break down why productivity platforms often backfire and how to fix it. We’ll look at how context switching drains your cognitive energy, how to reclaim your focus with one central task list, and why organizing work visually boosts momentum.

Chapters:

00:00 This stat should scare you.

01:09 Where Did Our Attention Go?

01:59 Stop Treating Your Brain Like a Task Manager

02:47 Create a Single Source of Truth

04:00 Organize Work in a Way That Makes Action Easier

05:17 Redefine What Responsiveness Means

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One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David’s forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are changing how companies approach leadership, teamwork, and collaboration.

A skilled researcher and inspiring communicator, Dr. David Burkus is the bestselling author of five books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. Since 2017, David has been ranked multiple times as one of the world’s top business thought leaders. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS Mornings.

A former business school professor, David now works with leaders from organizations across all industries, including PepsiCo, Fidelity, Adobe, and NASA. David’s keynotes aren’t just entertaining and enlightening—they’re evidence-based and immensely practical, offering leaders at all levels a set of actionable takeaways they can implement immediately.

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If you're struggling to delegate as a manager, it's time to fix that. Have no fear.

In this video, I break down the most common mistakes managers make when delegating and then I’ll give you strategies to delegate in a way that actually builds high-performing, autonomous teams. We’ll talk about task vs. ownership, how to create trust without micromanaging, and why delegation isn’t about offloading your least favorite tasks.

Delegation isn’t just a skill. It’s a responsibility. And when you do it right, you don’t just get more tim, you build a team that gets stronger every time you hand something off.

00:00 The struggle to delegate is real.

00:46 Mistake: delegating tasks instead of ownership

01:44 Mistake: never really letting go

02:35 Mistake: delegating the wrong work

03:44 Solution: Match Responsibility to Readiness

04:36 Solution: Establish Checkpoints

05:22 Solution: Share Real Authority

06:21 Close the Loop

06:50 Question to ask when reflecting on delegation

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One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David’s forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are changing how companies approach leadership, teamwork, and collaboration.

A skilled researcher and inspiring communicator, Dr. David Burkus is the bestselling author of five books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. Since 2017, David has been ranked multiple times as one of the world’s top business thought leaders. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS Mornings.

A former business school professor, David now works with leaders from organizations across all industries, including PepsiCo, Fidelity, Adobe, and NASA. David’s keynotes aren’t just entertaining and enlightening—they’re evidence-based and immensely practical, offering leaders at all levels a set of actionable takeaways they can implement immediately.

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We all make the same promise, sometimes more than once: "This time, I’ll be more productive.” But most productivity goals fail, not because we lack motivation, but because we’re managing the wrong thing. Based on powerful research, we’ll uncover how your natural energy rhythms can unlock your peak performance. You’ll learn how to identify your personal energy peaks, timebox your workday, and make space for real rest, not as a reward, but as a requirement for high performance.

Let’s fix how you work so you can do your best work ever.

00:00 I want to be more productive!

0:13 Meet Dr. David Burkus

01:48 Chronotypes

02:55 Timebox Your Day

04:35 Strategize Your Breaks

05:52 Focus on the Most Important Task

//ABOUT DAVID

One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever.

He is the best-selling author of five books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, Burkus has been ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and even the US Naval Academy.

A former business school professor, Burkus holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology from the University of Oklahoma, and a doctorate in strategic leadership from Regent University.

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