Serhant: Harvard Business School wrote a case study on his 1,000-minute rule
Ryan Serhant · How Ryan Serhant Sold $20B in Real Estate with Media & AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Nov 3, 2025 · at 46:40
Ryan Serhant discusses the reception of his productivity framework from his second book on the Sourcery podcast.
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“I wrote about that in book two and then Harvard business school did a review on it. So, which I thought they were going to write about content or media or tech or AI. And they were like, no, this thousand minute rule is so weird. We're going to have you come and teach a class and we're going to write. And it's in like the Harvard business review book.”
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