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by Brandon White
The PRODUCTIVITY podcast delivers time management strategies that work. You get one productivity tip a day in a short, productive episode. From the best productivity apps, software, and tools, to science-backed productivity tips, each episode helps you get your important things done consistently and make the most of your time and talent. Host Brandon White has been an entrepreneur for over two decades. Knowing he'll never get everything done in a day, he's identified the best productivity strategies and products that act as force multipliers in business and everyday life.
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- Jun 28, 20264 min
Job Crafting: Why This Is the Best Approach for Your Team
Job crafting, what job crafting is, what a major 2026 research review says about why it makes people more productive, and three protocols to help you and your team start job crafting without letting it spiral into chaos. STUDY CITATION Demerouti, E. (2026). Job crafting revisited: Current insights, emerging challenges, and future directions. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 13 (1), 195–220. Make sure you hit "FOLLOW" in your podcast player so you ...
- Jun 28, 20263 min
How to Identify and Manage Your Best Performers (Without Losing Them)
We're breaking down what makes someone a star performer, how researchers say you should identify high performers using four specific dimensions, and three protocols to help you define, manage, and keep the high performers on your team so your productivity doesn't walk out the door. STUDY CITATIONS O'Boyle, E. H., & Götz, M. (2026). Rethinking stardom: A relativistic approach to studying the absolute best performers. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1...
- Jun 27, 20264 min
Metacognition: The Skill Behind Every Skill You'll Ever Build
Metacognition is what neuroscientists call the highest form of intelligence. We are breaking down what metacognition is, what the research says about why metacognition matters more than raw brainpower, and three protocols to start thinking about your thinking so you catch mistakes faster, make sharper decisions, and stop allowing your thoughts to run on autopilot. STUDY CITATIONS Veenman, M. V. J., Van Hout-Wolters, B. H. A. M., & Afflerbach, P. (2006). Metacognition and learning: concept...
- Jun 25, 20264 min
The Florence Nightingale Insight: Why the Data You're Not Tracking Is Killing Your Productivity
The Florence Nightingale insight: why the data you're not tracking is the biggest threat to your productivity, what the research says about teams that measure versus teams that guess, and 3 Protocols to start counting what matters so you stop flying blind and start gaining ground. STUDY CITATIONS Brynjolfsson, E., & McElheran, K. (2016). The rapid adoption of data-driven decision-making. American Economic Review, 106(5), 133–139. Make sure you hit "FOLLOW" in your podcast player so you n...
- Jun 24, 20264 min
Why Taking Photos Makes You Forget: The Science of Cognitive Offloading
Why taking photos with your phone weakens your memory, what the research says about cognitive offloading, how your brain processes moments you photograph versus moments you experience, and 3 Protocols to help you stop cognitive offloading so you can be more present and productive with the memories that matter most to you. STUDY CITATIONS Henkel, L. A. (2014). Point-and-shoot memories: The influence of taking photos on memory for a museum tour. Psychological Science, 25(2), 396–402. Make sure...
- Jun 9, 20264 min
Six Thinking Hats Framework: How to Fix Your Team's Worst Meetings
The Six Thinking Hats, a structured decision-making method designed by Edward de Bono that forces your team to examine a problem from six distinct perspectives before anyone locks in on an answer. We'll cover what the Six Thinking Hats are, what the research says about how they sharpen group decision-making, and three protocols to run your next team decision so the quietest person in the room shapes the outcome just as much as the loudest. STUDY CITATIONS Gupta, R. & Bodhankar, A. (2023)....
- Jun 8, 20263 min
Beautiful.ai: Professional Slides Without a Design Degree
Why professional presentation design matters more than most people think, what the research says about how fast your audience judges the quality of your presentation slides, and three protocols to use Beautiful.ai to build polished, professional presentations without a single design skill. STUDY CITATIONS Lindgaard, G., Fernandes, G., Dudek, C., & Brown, J. (2006). Attention web designers: You have 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression! Behaviour & Information Technology, 25...
- Jun 7, 20264 min
Storytelling: How to Do It Right to Always Win Over Your Audience
Storytelling, why the best storytellers aren't born with a gift, what the research says about how storytelling rewires the way your audience thinks, and three protocols to make your storytelling so sharp that people remember you long after you stop talking. STUDY CITATIONS Green, M. C., & Brock, T. C. (2000). The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79 (5), 701–721. Stephens, G. J., Silbert, L. J., & Hasson, U...
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The PRODUCTIVITY podcast delivers time management strategies that work. You get one productivity tip a day in a short, productive episode. From the best productivity apps, software, and tools, to science-backed productivity tips, each episode helps you get your important things done consistently and make the most of your time and talent. Host Brandon White has been an entrepreneur for over two decades. Knowing he'll never get everything done in a day, he's identified the best productivity strategies and products that act as force multipliers in business and everyday life.
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