The Crazy Busy Cure *BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2022*: A productivity book for people with no time for productivity books - Softcover

Everett, Zena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529367085 ISBN 13: 9781529367089

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

How we spend our time is one of the greatest indicators of how successful we will be. We achieve our goals when we ruthlessly prioritise tasks and people that are important to us.

If we focus our time, energy and attention on the wrong things we will never achieve the success or happiness that we aspire to. The problem is that these wrong things, the low value, low impact tasks that distract us from our priorities, are hard to ignore. They scream out at us all day: digital distractions, other people''s urgent demand for ''five minutes'' that''s never five minutes, the meetings that you shouldn''t be in, the pointless email chains, the reports you write that don''t get read.

We get a dopamine hit from ticking these tasks off a list. It''s got us hooked on crazy busyness. But all we are doing is scratching off a layer of fake work on top of the real, valuable work.

The Crazy Busy Cure is full of intensely practical tips to save people from this addiction and instead become productive again. Jammed with practical productivity solutions to use immediately, the book introduces concepts such as being like lions and chasing antelopes not field mice; Lawn Mower Managers who clear the path not clog it; the PIMP process for prioritisation and the Head Space model for understanding where your time goes.

In this lively read, executive coach and organisational psychologist Zena Everett draws from her many thousands of hours and coaching and speaking to people and organisations about productivity blockers and how to shift them. She advises how to manage other people''s work as well as your own and explains how these practices apply to virtual working, including chapters on staying energised and productive when working remotely and influencing on Zoom.

The chapter on neurodiversity also offers productivity hacks for people with learning and thinking differences like dyspraxia and attention deficit disorder.

Read this book and regain your productivity.

About this title

About the Author

Zena Everett is as executive coach and popular speaker on Crazy Busyness and overwhelm. She delivers Crazy Busy personal effectiveness sessions in organisations around the world and for Cranfield School of Management and Henley Business School. She is a speaker for the London Business Forum has coached on the Executive MBA programme at Oxford University's Said Business School.

An organisational psychologist and psychological coach, Zena is ex-recruitment entrepreneur who has worked with thousands of professionals to ensure that how they spend their time reflects their career goals.

From the Back Cover

It's 3pm and you still haven't done any of the tasks you intended. How has this happened again?

This book is for you if:

· You feel unrelentingly busy and overwhelmed.
· When you're not working, you're still 'on' - checking emails and always thinking about what you haven't done.
· You over-commit and find it hard to say no.
· You sacrifice your own priorities for disorganized people's urgent demands.
· Meetings, emails, and constant interruptions suck the life out of you.
· Your HR department's emails about wellness week are the final straw: meditation won't help your wellbeing, less meetings would.


What you do all day determines the success and happiness you achieve. You reach your goals when you ruthlessly prioritize tasks and people that are important to you. Doing this brings freedom from emails, meetings about meetings, digital distractions, other people, procrastination and your own addiction to being crazy busy.

With simple, practical solutions you and your team can use today, The Crazy Busy Cure is full of productive tips to save you from your to-do list and to help you to get things done.



'Read this book and you'll get weeks of productive focus in return.'
Peter Bregman, bestselling author of 18 Minutes and Leading with Emotional Courage

Powerful ideas for getting out of your own way and getting on with work that really makes a difference.
Caroline Goyder, author of Gravitas and Find Your Voice

Business has been too busy for too long. The Crazy Busy Cure is so welcome given the opportunities we now have to build a better working world.
Roger Steare, The Corporate Philosopher

Edition details

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1529367085
• ISBN 13: 9781529367089
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176