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Smarter faster better : the secrets of productivity in life and business / Charles Duhigg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780812993394
  • 081299339X
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Contents:
Motivation: re-imagining boot camp, nursing home rebellions, and the locus of control -- Teams: psychological safety at Google and Saturday Night Live -- Focus: cognitive tunneling, Air France flight 447, and the power of mental models -- Goal setting: smart goals, stretch goals, and the Yom Kippur War -- Managing others: solving a kidnapping with lean and agile thinking and a culture of trust -- Decision making: forecasting the future (and winning at poker) with Bayesian psychology -- Innovation: how idea brokers and creative desperation saved Disney's Frozen -- Absorbing data: turning information into knowledge in Cincinnati's public schools. -- Appendix: a reader's guide to using these ideas.
Summary: Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 158 D871 Available 33111008157659
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Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 158 D871 Available 33111007748201
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators and "master of the life hack" ( GQ ) explores the fascinating science of productivity and offers real-world takeaways to apply your life, whether you're chasing peak productivity or simply trying to get back on track.

"Duhigg melds cutting-edge science, deep reporting, and wide-ranging stories to give us a fuller, more human way of thinking about how productivity actually happens."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet

In The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg explained why we do what we do. In Smarter Faster Better, he applies the same relentless curiosity and rich storytelling to how we can improve at the things we do.

At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight key concepts--from motivation and goal setting to focus and decision making--that explain why some people and companies get so much done. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics--as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songwriters--this book reveals that the most productive people, companies, and organizations don't merely act differently. They view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways.

Smarter Faster Better is a story-filled exploration of the science of productivity, one that can help us learn to succeed with less stress and struggle--and become smarter, faster, and better at everything we do.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-368) and index.

Motivation: re-imagining boot camp, nursing home rebellions, and the locus of control -- Teams: psychological safety at Google and Saturday Night Live -- Focus: cognitive tunneling, Air France flight 447, and the power of mental models -- Goal setting: smart goals, stretch goals, and the Yom Kippur War -- Managing others: solving a kidnapping with lean and agile thinking and a culture of trust -- Decision making: forecasting the future (and winning at poker) with Bayesian psychology -- Innovation: how idea brokers and creative desperation saved Disney's Frozen -- Absorbing data: turning information into knowledge in Cincinnati's public schools. -- Appendix: a reader's guide to using these ideas.

Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.

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