Deep Work: Why Your Focus Depends on Your Team with Shawn Vanderhoven

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Thhetodo list.com slash brainfm and get twenty percent off or go to the link in the show notes. Again, that link is beyond the toolist.com slash brainfm and get twenty percent off. and welcome back to Beyond the To-do List, a podcast about productivity. I'm your host, Eric Fisher. My guest today is Sean Vanderhoven. He's a leadership researcher, a partner at the Wiseman Group, and the author of a new book called Pause. He spent three years interviewing hundreds of people about the leaders who made it possible.

For them. To focus. And the leaders who made it impossible. And somewhere in the middle of writing all of that, unfortunately, his own team had to sit him down and tell him that he was that second kind. He calls this book a personal confession as well as an indictment, and he means both. Sean, welcome to the show. Thanks for being here.

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