Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours - Hardcover

Pozen, Robert C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062188534 ISBN 13: 9780062188533

Publisher: Harper Business, 2012

Synopsis

Robert C. Pozen is a business professor who teaches a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial services firm. He's written six books and hundreds of articles, raised a family with his wife of more than four decades, and served on many boards of local charities and public companies. Pozen is a prince of productivity, a man who has worked smarter and faster than almost anyone around him for over forty years. In "Extreme Productivity", Pozen reveals the secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. His book is for everyone feeling overwhelmed by their existing workload and faced with a myriad of competing demands and multiple time-sensitive projects. The antidote to a calendar full of boring meetings and a backlog of emails, "Extreme Productivity" provides busy professionals with an analytical framework aimed at prioritizing their time for high-impact results and refining their career goals for long-term success. Pozen shows that in order to be truly productive, professionals must make a critical shift in mindset: from hours worked to results produced. He explains how to determine your highest priorities and match these priorities with how you actually spend your time. He also provides a toolkit of practical tips and techniques to help professionals at all stages of their careers maximize their time at work - while leading full and productive personal lives as well.

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Review:

"Personal productivity requires you to focus on the most important tasks rather than spending your time on busy work or small wins. If you want to learn how to raise your game, look no further than "Extreme Productivity"."" --David Calhoun, Chairman and CEO of Nielsen, former Vice Chairman of General Electric

From the Back Cover:

A road-tested formula for improving your performance, from one of the business world's most successful—and productive—executives.

Robert C. Pozen taught a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial-services firm. He's written six books and hundreds of articles, raised a family with his wife of more than four decades, and served on many boards of local charities and public companies. Pozen is a prince of productivity, a man who has worked smarter and faster than almost everyone around him for more than forty years.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062188534
• ISBN 13: 9780062188533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304