S7E163: Making Time for Strategy with Richard Medcalf

The Project Chatter Podcast

In this week’s pod, we were joined by Richard Medcalf to discuss making time for strategy.
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 and a trusted advisor to exceptional CEOs and entrepreneurs, and their leadership teams.The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:

• Find your rocket fuel! Having a sense of purpose will help to drive you during your career
• Make investments to create a better future
• We live in a world of infinity – emails / books / communications. Try to beat with productivity
• Think about TIME:

• Tactics
• Influence
• Mindset
• Environment

• Check your personal values and mindset. What do you do that creates value for your stakeholders?
• Aim to create “strategic time”. Start with achievable and small blocks and see the benefit of the ability to focus on a particular project

• Making Time for Strategy: How to be less busy and more successful – Richard Medcalf: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-TIME-Strategy-less-successful/dp/1915036747/
• XQuadrant - Discover your strategy score: https://xquadrant.aidaform.com/makingtime

Here are links to some of the topics we discussed:
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