While you might assume that detailed agendas improve your meetings, they may have exactly the opposite effect. This is because many employees unwittingly engage in a practice we call agenda theatre: They sink time and effort into agendas that create the appearance of effective meetings, without actually improving how m

Man, that time change is always hard. It's getting dark earlier and starting to feel more and more like winter. There's nothing the time change blues can't fix like an episode on managing time and how to make our days feel longer and more efficient. Ashley Whillans joins us to help us work through that never-ending fee

Our book this month is "Time Smart; How to Reclaim Your Time And Live A Happier Life" by Ashley Whillans.  The title might imply this is yet another time management book. This is not a time management book like so many out there. We are a generation of over-worked, over-stressed, rushed maniacs. In 2012, a study found

Ashley Whillans spends a lot of her time studying happiness, so she joins the show to share how you can best spend your time to boost your life satisfaction. Once again, I’m joined by a fellow Canadian! Today’s guest is Ashley Whillans, a Behavioral Scientist and Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School in Negoti

For many of us, in this pandemic, our relationship to time has become particularly fraught. You may be noticing that, with no limits on your work time, you are going into overdrive and feeling more crazed than ever. Or you may be feeling like you have too much time and are bored out of your mind. Or you may be feeling

Join us on Be Brave at Work as we continue our conversation with Ashley Whillans, an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School in Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets. Ashley is passionate about science communication and public engagement. She also regularly writes about her research for popular press outl