Extreme productivity : boost your results, reduce your hours / Robert C. Pozen.
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperBusiness, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 278 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0062188534 (hardback)
- 9780062188533 (hardback)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Required reading for professionals--and aspiring professionals--of all levels."
--Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Former Chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Robert C. Pozen, one of the business world's most successful--and productive--executives, reveals the surprising secrets to workplace productivity and high performance.
It's far too easy for working professionals to become overwhelmed by a pile of time-sensitive projects, a backlog of emails, and endless meetings. In order to be truly productive, they must make a critical shift in mindset from hours worked to results produced.
With Extreme Productivity, Pozen explains how individuals can maximize their time and energy by determining and focusing on their highest priorities. He also provides a toolkit of practical tips and techniques to help professionals at all stages of their careers maximize their time at work.
This essential handbook empowers every person with proven methods for prioritizing their time to achieve high-impact results and refine their career goals for long-term success, all while leading a full and meaningful personal life as well.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278).
Three big ideas -- Productivity every day -- Developing personal skills -- Managing up and down -- Pursuing a productive life.
"In Extreme Productivity, Pozen reveals the secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. His book is for anyone feeling overwhelmed by an existing workload-facing myriad competing demands and multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a calendar full of boring meetings and a backlog of e-mails, Extreme Productivity explains how to determine your highest priorities and match them with how you actually spend your time.
Pozen shows that in order to be truly productive, professionals must make a critical shift in their mind-set: from hours worked to results produced. He helps people at all stages of their careers read, write, and make presentations quicker and more effectively. He provides professionals with practical tips on how to efficiently use their time in the office-while leading full and productive personal lives as well"-- Provided by publisher.