/Shishir Mehrotra

Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems tl;dr: 3 techniques for expert framing, including Eigenquestion, when one critical decision has ten related questions. The Eigenquestion is the question that, if answered, answers all the subsequent questions as well, discussed in more detail here.

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Team Meeting Audit: 3 Tests For An Effective Meeting OS (And 4 steps To Fix It!) tl;dr: 3 tests: (1) Balance: how much time does the team spend in meetings vs free time? (2) Flow: how much free time is uninterrupted? (3) Effectiveness: how effective does your team feel meetings are? Shishir also provides steps to improve meetings. 

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Executive Onboarding: Shishir's Tips and Best Practices tl;dr: CEO of Coda provides 3 rules for execs in the first 8 weeks of a new role: (1) The most important instinct to resist as a new exec is to "prove yourself fast." Your primary job is to learn and mimic how things were operating before. (2) Fill your time with learning in a methodical, prioritized way outlining areas you want to focus on learn. (3) Take on a single starter project that is not a critical path.

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Shishir's To-Do List Philosophy tl;dr: (1) Co-founder and CEO at Coda's to-do list philosophy: (1) Start every new day fresh with no weight from the previous day's list of things to do, just a new sheet of paper with a new set of priorities, don't compound from the previous day. (2) Do the hardest task first. (3) Have a column with next action so you can see which tasks are missing a next step. (4) Know whether it's on your plate or someone else's. 

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