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A Productive Conversation · 2026-03-18 · 40 min · 7,398 words

How to Stop Managing Everything and Start Leading What Matters (with Rich Czyz)

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Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Hi, I'm Rich Chiz, and I'm about to have a productive conversation with Mike Vardi.

Rich, thanks so much for taking the time to join me today for a productive conversation. We are going to be talking about your book. Autopilot, practical productivity for school leaders. Thanks so much for being here. Yeah, thanks for having me.

Uh excited to talk productivity today. So I have long noticed, as I know you have based on what you've written, that um one of the things that doesn't necessarily get brought up in school is this concept of being productive in for school leaders especially, you know, to niche into that area. The in in my experience, and you definitely can can ex expand on this because you've got a lot more, is that there's a lot of stuff that that that kind of feels old school that they they do just because it's the way it's always been done. And time is a premium, right, for them.

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