At the World Economic Forum last week, I attended a small dinner that included eight Nobel Prize winners. What a privilege in itself.The question the Laureates were asked to address was "What do you see as the world's biggest challenges?" They facilitated conversations at each table, and at the end, each of them reported out.
I was sitting with the CEO and senior team of a well-respected organization. One at a time, they told me they spend their long days either in back-to-back meetings, responding to email, or putting out fires. They also readily acknowledged this way of working wasn't serving them well — personally or professionally.
I’ve just returned from an offsite with our team at The Energy Project. At the end, I asked each person to take a few moments to say what he or she felt most proud of accomplishing over the past year.
I hadn't been offline for more than a few hours in two and a half years — and only then because I was on safari in Botswana and had no choice.Typically, the first thing I would do when I got up in the morning was to get on my laptop to check a series of sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Google Analytics, and HBR.org, to see what comments my blogs had accumulated overnight.
