3 productivity improvements that reduce stress and drive growth in business
- E309
- 37:40
- December 7th 2022
Rob Krecak is a thrill-seeker, self-professed nerd, question-asker, voracious reader, competitor, keynote speaker, and business builder.
When he first got his Wall Street job as a sell-side equity analyst out of college, he thought he’d made it. After buying everything he wanted on his wishlist, he realized that he still wasn’t happy. He listened to his deep-down desire to help more people by leaving finance to eventually own three Anytime Fitness health clubs and four uBreakiFix cell phone repair stores.
As someone vulnerable to technology’s addictive hold from a young age—video games and Facebook in particular—Rob is on a mission to help individuals and companies reduce burnout and get back time to master their careers and lives. He founded Humans First to provide a one-of-a-kind coaching experience that analyzes and coaches people’s efficiency and energy by paying attention to their mindfulness with technology.
In this episode, he shares 3 key productivity improvements that reduce stress and drive growth in business. Insights he shares include:
- Can productivity improvements make a four-day workweek a reality
- Why Rob believes that social media can be detrimental to your overall well being
- How did you achieve technological and productivity mindfulness
- Why productivity improvements matter and tips to help improve it
- Why the use of technology is one of the hardest problems to solve
- How to better communicate to gain productivity improvements
- What businesses can do to help their employees communicate better
- How addressing culture, communication, and productivity can produce productivity improvements, drive growth, and better mental health across an organization
- How best to use science and data to help bring about productivity and efficiency gains
- and much much more ...
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