Productive Downtime is a Startup Leader’s Secret Weapon

How I learned to innovate thanks to company-sponsored partying

Joe Procopio
5 min readJan 17, 2022

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I’ve been perfecting a leadership practice over the last 20 years that has produced some surprising gains in both productivity and innovation. I call it “productive downtime.”

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Joe Procopio

Multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. NLG pioneer & eService expert. Building TeachingStartup.com & GetSpiffy.com. Uncommon founder. More at joeprocopio.com