What You're Not Measuring Is Costing You (with Dr. Henry Cloud)
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Mike Vardy discusses the importance of measuring the right things in productivity with Dr. Henry Cloud.
This episode is brought to you by The 10 Second Inbox—a small, tactical system for taming email without chasing inbox zero. One ten-second decision per message, one calm inbox you can glance at and close. It's launch priced at $29 (reg. $49) through July 26th. Get it at mikevardy.com/10secondinbox (code INBOXTODAY auto-applies). Most of us have convinced ourselves that the problem is effort. We're not working hard enough, moving fast enough, or checking enough boxes. But what if the real problem is that we're measuring the wrong things, pruning nothing, and assembling a team built entirely in our own image? That's where today's conversation starts — and it doesn't let up from there. Dr. Henry Cloud is a clinical psychologist, leadership consultant, and the author of more than twenty books, including the boundary-setting classic Boundaries and Necessary Endings . His latest work, Your Desired Future: The Five Essential Steps That Take You Where You Want to Go , uses the human body as a model for understanding how high performance actually works — not as a motivational metaphor, but as a biological and organizational framework for getting from where you are to where you want to be…
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