Jeff Lyman part 2 - Breaking the Cycle of Busyness & Prioritizing the Bigger Business Problems

Leadership and People

Jeff Lyman, Chief Product Officer at Vivint Smart Home, talks about the importance of prioritizing the big picture in business and discusses brand and marketing lessons he learned while working at Nike that have helped shape his work and the future at Vivint.

Show Notes:

• Recognizing and acknowledging career-limiting “tumors” [02:08]
• Being too busy to be effective [04:14]
• Without WiFi: Disciplined, focusing thinking & productivity mid-flight [06:54]
• The anxiety of disconnecting in a digital world [07:38]
• The advantages of avoiding your to-do list snooze button [09:41]
• Less talk, more rock: focusing on the bigger problems & limiting less important distractions [11:21]
• Being a Steward of the Brand, Brand Management [13:50]
• Creating the business culture, dedication you want to the brand begins with hiring [18:10]
• At Vivint, home is the epicenter of human life [19:15]
• Getting to people’s soul in the interview process [22:37]
• Selecting people, employees with owner-thinking versus renter-thinking [25:26]
• Advice Jeff Lyman would give himself if he could go back 15 years? Everyone has a fastball. [26:25]

References:

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• The Light Phone