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NuevoPrioritisation and saying no: the best advice from the How I Work archive11 de noviembre de 2026 · 25 min
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You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets - the daily strategies behind their success through to life hacks and productivity hacks they’d rather keep to themselves. We’re talking practical tips for boosting your output (including clever AI tools and shortcuts that’ll make you look like a genius), managing overwhelm without losing your mind, and optimising both work and wellbeing. No motivational fluff. Just battle‑tested tactics from people who’ve cracked the code.

Episodios 765

  1. Prioritisation and saying no: the best advice from the How I Work archive

    25 min

    Saying no to a bad idea takes no effort. Saying no to a good one is where prioritising gets hard. Too much to do, everything feeling urgent, and no clear idea of what to let go of: this is the problem I hear …

  2. What is an AI skill (and why you should care)

    11 min

    **Join our AI Mastery program: https://www.inventium.ai/ai-mastery ** You’ve typed the same instructions into AI for the third week running, tweaked the wording slightly, and got a slightly different result …

  3. How to make your frequent flyer points go further in 2027

    36 min

    You've spent years collecting frequent flyer points. Then you finally go to book a flight, and somehow the seats you want are never available. Or the points required seem ridiculous. Or you give up and pay cash …

  4. The prompt that shows what your AI actually knows about you (and it’s less than you might think)

    11 min

    Your AI greets you like an old friend, then hands back something painfully average. Sometimes it even refers to a job you left two years ago. What your AI knows about you and what it simply assumes are two very …

  5. How to master difficult conversations at work, with Tim Duggan

    39 min

    Around 80% of us will avoid conflict if given the chance, and Tim Duggan was firmly in that camp. In this episode, I sit down with Tim, author of Clear In Tension: How to Get Better at Conflict, to explore how …

  6. Still arguing with AI over a bad first draft? Try these 4 tips

    13 min

    Do you still have a prompt formula saved somewhere, maybe an acronym from an Instagram reel that promised better answers from AI? You paste it in, swap a few words, hit send, and what comes back still misses …

  7. REPLAY: Feel like you’re always behind? Chris Guillebeau has a fix for your time anxiety (Part 1)

    25 min

    **REPLAY** Do you ever get the sense that no matter how much you do, you’re still running out of time? Like there’s something you should be doing, but you can’t quite figure out what it is? In this episode of …

  8. Your prompts are stuck in 2025. Here are 5 fixes

    12 min

    Some prompts have been with you for a year or more. They open with a grand persona for the AI, add a few rules in capital letters, and finish with a request to think it all through. They worked well once, and …

  9. REPLAY: Why you feel busy all the time (even when you’re not), with Laura Vanderkam

    36 min

    **REPLAY** What would you do with four extra hours a day? Probably say you don't have them. But according to Laura Vanderkam, one of the world's leading thinkers on time, they're already there. You're just not …

  10. Your custom GPTs and Gems are going away. Here's how to save them.

    8 min

    Who keeps moving my buttons? You know the one. You finally learn where everything lives, and overnight the menu has been rearranged, the feature has a new name, and the thing you spent months perfecting is on a …

  11. The Work Edit: The AI skill that saves me 200 minutes a week. Here's how to build yours.

    33 min

    Twenty minutes doesn't sound like much. Multiply it by ten sales calls a week and it adds up to more than three hours spent on a task that someone, or something, else could be doing. Now think about how many …

  12. AI is a terrible brainstormer (until you do this)

    14 min

    You ask AI for ideas and get a tidy list of ten, each one praised as being brilliant. The tempting move is to grab the first one that looks decent and get on with your day. The catch is that you've handed over …

  13. The 7 types of rest you need, and how to find the one you're missing, with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith

    39 min

    One surgeon takes his boat out onto a lake, screams until he can't scream anymore, and then cries. It is how he recovers from a job where patients die and he can't fall apart in front of his team. That is what …

  14. Your AI gets dumber at 60%. Here's the free fix.

    10 min

    Some of us have a favourite chat thread we keep coming back to, adding a bit more context every time we open it. It feels efficient, like you're building up a work buddy who really knows your stuff. But every …

  15. The Work Edit: 3 evening strategies to actually help you switch off

    30 min

    You've read the books. You've locked the phone in a drawer. You've set a hard cut-off at 8 PM. And none of it has lasted more than two weeks. That's exactly where Shaun found himself. By day he's a senior …

  16. The 4 recurring tasks you should hand off to AI permanently

    13 min

    Most people treat AI like a vending machine: you show up, you ask, you wait. But what if there's another way to use it, one where the work gets done before you've even thought to ask for it. In this How I AI …

  17. Steal Jane Lu's system for delegating without losing control

    34 min

    Hiring someone is one of the highest-stakes decisions a founder makes. Get it wrong and you can lose time, money, and momentum. And after 16 years of building Showpo from her parents' garage into a nine-figure …

  18. 3 signs it's time to start a new chat thread

    10 min

    You've put in the work on your prompts. You know how to give AI the right context, set the right tone, ask the right questions. But then, mid-conversation, something shifts. The AI starts making things up …

  19. Why planning 60% of your day is the most productive thing you can do, with Cyril Peupion

    29 min

    There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes not from working hard, but from never quite feeling like you've worked on the right things. You finish a full day, maybe a long one, and yet the projects that …

  20. Quick Win: The million-dollar moment that tested Catriona Wallace’s integrity

    9 min

    When Dr Catriona Wallace was offered a million dollars to take out her nose ring, she didn’t hesitate. Her response wasn’t defiance - it was clarity. In this Quick Win, Catriona shares how she dealt with the …

  21. The Work Edit: When gratitude becomes entitlement, and how to reset it

    34 min

    You give your team something rare. A four-day week. Flexible hours. Real breathing room. And for a while, it works beautifully. Then, gradually, the gratitude fades. The expectation creeps in. And suddenly, the …

  22. Quick Win: How to rebuild trust at work when its broken

    7 min

    Trust doesn’t rebuild with one big apology. It grows back quietly - through small, consistent moments that prove you mean what you say. In this Quick Win episode, my teammate Aly Solly and I share how we …

  23. The two numbers that predict whether you'll actually hit your goal, with Jia Jiang

    33 min

    Every productivity guru will tell you the same thing: set realistic goals, or you're setting yourself up to fail. Jia Jiang did the opposite. He told the internet he'd sell 10,000 copies of his new book in 100 …

  24. Quick Win: The hidden reason AI isn’t delivering value at work, according to Dom Price

    7 min

    AI might be saving you time, but if you don’t know what to do with that time, it’s not worth much. In this Quick Win, I’m joined by Dom Price, who spent 12 years as the Work Futurist at Atlassian. Dom shares a …

  25. The Work Edit: How to scale a consulting business without growing the team

    33 min

    Hiring feels like the obvious next move when a business starts doing well. More people, more capacity, more revenue. The logic is so clean it barely needs questioning. But the businesses with the smallest teams …

  26. The prompting mistake almost everyone makes

    12 min

    How much of your week goes into fixing what AI just handed you? Not writing from scratch, just cleaning up, correcting, and nudging a draft that looked fine for about ten seconds before you actually needed it …

  27. The 3 questions that reveal whether someone is actually motivated, with Dr Justin Coulson

    36 min

    Every manager and every parent has met the same wall. Someone who won't engage, won't budge, won't do the thing, no matter how hard you push or how much you offer. Dr Justin Coulson has spent two decades inside …

  28. Do these 2 things if you're worried about AI and the environment

    16 min

    There is a quiet guilt a lot of people carry every time they open ChatGPT. Somewhere between the headlines about data centres and the vague sense that AI is somehow worse for the planet than everything else we …

  29. Are you an insecure overachiever? Oliver Burkeman on why success never feels like enough

    36 min

    There's a particular kind of tightness that creeps in when the world feels unpredictable. We tidy the to-do list, tighten the routine, optimise one more thing, all in an attempt to feel a bit more in control …

  30. What you should never paste into AI

    14 min

    Before you paste that customer list, that blood test result or that contract into your favourite AI tool, it's worth pausing for a second. Whatever you hand over doesn't just disappear after you get your …

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