GE Gave Him 6 Weeks to Sell the Business | Fiserv CRO Robert Clarkson

Well, so I read a lot and one of my favorite people in history is Benjamin Franklin.

And he had a theory called the virtue of order.

And basically he said that if everything is put into place at the end of the day, One, you've kind of assessed all the things that you have to do and you've accomplished over the day and you start the next day fresh.

It's also, it minimizes distraction.

So like, it's funny, like my credit cards, my wallet are always in the same position.

And therefore, if one's missing, I instantaneously know that it's gone, right? I left it at the restaurant or, you know, whatever, I left it in my shorts at gym or something like that.

And so this virtual order is something that I try to do every morning.

I read through all the emails that came in while I was sleeping.

And every night I try to read and answer every single email that I didn't get to during the day so that we start fresh every day.

And it's very easy to let those things kind of build up.

And every once in a while, like I look at my...

If I look at my emails and I get many, many emails during the day, but if there's over 20 emails that I haven't read because it was on a call or meeting with a client or something like that, I can almost feel that tension building up like, boy, I got to put that fire up.

But I actually have coworkers of mine that have like 6,200 unread me emails.

I'm like... how do you even do that? Like, I don't even know how you function with that kind of thing.

So to me, that starting fresh and finishing clean every day is super important.

Yeah, I can see that.

And I've had the same feeling where when there are things hanging out there and I don't know where they're at, it does create this tension.

And there is something nice to waking up to order and freshness.

These days, who knows? There's so many things changing.

Sometimes it's hard to, sometimes you get so many things overnight and especially if I serves all over the world, you're going to get things from all

around.

Well, I'm like, I'm, I'm flying to Australia this week.

You know, their problems and their challenges don't occur during us banking hours.

Let's put it that way.

So, you know, I am on duty all the