From checking our phones and firing up our laptops, to getting in the car or the train to work, energy, in all its forms, is the lifeblood of our society. And just as we only think about our circulatory system when things go wrong, we often take energy for granted until it’s not there.

Rathbone Income Fund Manager Carl Stick argues that relentlessly busy bees aren’t always as productive as they seem. Might the answer be to do fewer things better?