How to Get More Done by Communicating Less
The Low Communication Diet
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6 min readMay 16, 2019
Research shows that the average office worker spends around 23 hours per week in meetings and receives 121 emails per day.
That’s a lot of time spent on merely communicating what to do, when to do it and how to do it. Without actually doing it.
One could argue that some of these office workers never actually get around to doing anything because they are stuck in the never-ending emails — meeting — emails — meeting loop.
Now I know that’s not you. I know that you actually get stuff done. A lot.
But what if you could get even more done by fine-tuning what, how, why, and when you communicate?
Let me introduce you to the low-communication diet. A concept that is — as the name reveals — closely related to the low-information diet.
The Low-Communication Diet is about minimizing the time spend on irrelevant, unimportant and unactionable communication.
As a result, you can get more done by re-allocating the time previously spent on…
