How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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


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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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