Currently, I am a professor at MIT, teaching finance, productivity and other business issues.  My teachings are based on learnings from my career leading large financial institutions, serving in government and working in policy development as well.  I am also a personal coach to executives who want to grow in their positions to be the best they can be.

I write articles on productivity and financial issues for well known publications from the Wall St. Journal to the Washington Post.  I am the Author of Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours and recently co-authored Remote, Inc. with Alexandra Samuel.

I teach an MIT class on productivity which is one of the most highly rated courses offered.  In the class, I work with executives around the world to help them be better at their jobs and hopefully their lives as well.

A few quotes that I share:

–Priorities are the yearly goals that I’m most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

–Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I’m urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they’re not critical to their most important goals.

–Start at the end.  I’ve seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you’ll have guidance for the rest of your research.