Josh Davis is the Chief Scientist and Senior Faculty as Mentora Institute. He is the author of an international bestseller on time management, Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies to Harness Your Best Time and Get Your Most Important Work Done, now published in 10 languages. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, Training + Development, Psychology Today, and others. He also trains individuals in techniques derived from psychotherapy at the NLP Center of NY and coaches people to love public speaking.

Prior to joining Mentora, Josh guided the translation of research on behavior change into leadership content as the Director of Research and Lead Professor for the NeuroLeadership Institute, during a period where the organization more than quadrupled in size. He also served as a professor in the Department of Psychology at Barnard College, as well as Columbia University and New York University. He holds a bachelors in engineering from Brown University and a PhD from Columbia University, where he studied psychology and neuroscience.

In this episode of Intersections, Prof. Hitendra Wadhwa has a conversation with Josh Davis on the topic “Managing Your Time During a Global Pandemic”.

Many of us are finding it challenging to manage our responsibilities in today's conditions. The stakes are high, the pressure is intense, the demands are many, and the conditions ever-changing; plus work and family are being intertwined. We are stretched and strained beyond measure.

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

Abraham Lincoln

The episode “Managing Your Time During a Global Pandemic” offers key insights on:

• How to capture decision points and increase our productivity
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• Discovering the secret to Lincoln’s power of concentration and using meditation to strengthen our own concentration power
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• How to manage our time and relationships simultaneously