Eric Partaker's videos and podcasts

Seeing this for the first time was a special moment. The official back cover of my new book. I've...

You finished work at 9pm (again). Eleven hours gone, and you'd struggle to name one important thing...

You can sleep 8 hours and still wake up exhausted. That used to be my everyday routine. Most people...

In 2000, I bought a set of books on how to stop procrastinating. I didn’t read them until 2010. One...

In 2020 the restaurant chain I co-founded went from solvent to insolvent in three months. Chilango ...

Your values aren’t your culture. They’re just what you hope people believe. Culture is what actual...

Most companies are bleeding cash in 4 spots. (And don't even know which wound to fix first.) The b...

Hot take: A boring life is an underrated advantage. In 2010, I’d spent a decade going a mile a minu...

I coach CEOs on performance. For a long time I couldn't run my own routine. Mine had five parts. 8 ...

Earlier this year I hit a stretch of work that would have broken the old me. Before, I would’ve tho...

I had a board meeting once that went awful. Really badly. The kind where you walk out replaying eve...

At McKinsey, I advised Fortune 50 CEOs on how to run their companies. I never once asked myself the...

In 2020 the restaurant chain I co-founded went from solvent to insolvent in three months. Chilango ...

Harvard Business Review studied Fortune 100-size companies over half a century. 87% of them hit a g...

Rest is a strategy. Burnout is what happens without one. I learned this the hard way. For years I ...

Harvard studied why strategy execution fails. Only 50% of middle managers could name ANY of their c...

Stress and excitement feel the same to your body. Same heart rate, same skin conductance, same phys...

I learned this the hard way in my 2nd year as CEO. I had someone on my team who always agreed with ...

The biggest reset of my life happened at 35,000 feet. In 2010, I boarded a flight from Spain to Lon...

You open your laptop Monday morning. Within 15 minutes, the plan is already slipping. By Friday, t...

When you promote toxic people, you lose your best people. Harvard put numbers on it. Researchers s...

You can sleep 8 hours and still wake up exhausted. Most people do. The difference between junk sle...

The average leader gets 2 to 3 hours of real deep work a day. Most waste at least one of those hour...

I used to wear 14-hour days like a badge of honor. I thought rest was what you did after the work w...

The fastest way to lose your best leaders: Push them harder. I was a horrible manager when I had m...

85% of your week goes to collaboration. Meetings, email, group chat. Rob Cross studied where all th...

A Stanford study tracked 30,000 adults over eight years. People under high stress had a 43% higher ...

Most CEOs make million-dollar decisions with the same process they use to pick lunch. And that's ex...

I used to schedule my hardest work first thing in the morning. For years I thought that was discipli...