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“If you want to win the war for attention”: Brooks, David. “The Art of Focus.” New
York  Times,  June  3,  2013.  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/opinion/brooks-
the-art-of-focus.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=2.
“When you receive them”: from page 12 of McChesney, Covey, and Huling, The 4
Disciplines of Execution.
“People play differently when they’re keeping score”: Ibid., 12.
“a  rhythm  of  regular  and  frequent  meetings”  and  “execution  really  happens”:
Ibid., 13.
Be Lazy
“I  am  not  busy”  and  “Idleness  is  not  just  a  vacation”:  Kreider,  Tim.  “The  Busy

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Trap.” 
New 
York 
Times, 
June 
30, 
2013.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/.
Much (though not all) of the research cited to support the value of downtime was first
brought  to  my  attention  through  a  detailed  Scientific  American  article  on  the
subject:  Jabr,  Ferris.  “Why  Your  Brain  Needs  More  Downtime.”  Scientific
American,  October  15,  2013.  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mental-
downtime/.