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DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ is co-founder of the team productivity app Asana
(www.Asana.com) and co-founded Facebook. In an interview for this book,
Dustin provided this productivity advice:
Pick one day a week that you and your team can focus on getting
individual work done without any interruptions like meetings. At Asana,
we have No Meeting Wednesdays established to encourage flow and
productivity across the company.
MARK PINCUS is the co-founder and CEO of Zynga. In an interview for this
book, Mark provided this productivity advice

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If you want to build great products, devote more than 50 percent of your
work hours to product. Don't accept speaking opportunities if you can't
justify them as benefitting your users or your company.
Nobody would argue that stellar time management is the key to becoming a
billionaire, but the wisdom of those who’ve quickly climbed to the very peak of
business success certainly can accelerate our own progress.

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CHAPTER 19
Time Secrets of 13 Olympic Athletes
How do Olympic athletes maintain their focus, discipline and energy? How do
the unsponsored athletes juggle their “day job” with their training and family
obligations?
Perhaps more than any other group, Olympic athletes are truly working
against a ticking clock. Four years in between Olympic Games. Each day that
passes takes the athletes closer and closer to their big moment. It’s a moment
when winning a medal or not can literally come down to fractions of a second.
Similar to the other highly successful people I interviewed, Olympic athletes
stressed the importance of scheduling everything on the calendar and having
clear priorities.
What was unique to this group was how often they brought up the importance
of sleep and the need to rejuvenate. Maximizing energy, not just time, is
paramount to athletes.
Gymnast Shannon Miller mentioned, “Grabbing a power nap.” Olympic
rower, Will Dean, said, “To be at your best, you need some down time. Don't
feel bad about napping.” Katie Uhlanender, a skeleton racer, advised, “It is
important to also schedule time for yourself, to rest, or to refocus.” And cyclist,

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Chris Carmichael, believes “Rest is perhaps the most overlooked and
undervalued aspect of time management.”
The advice given by all the Olympic athletes I interviewed is below.