Motivation Productivity

In the new edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in the New York Times, best-selling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and surprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations - truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today.

Juggling Elephants tells a simple but profound story about a universal problem - too much to do, too many priorities, too much stress, too little time. If your life has gotten as crazy as a three-ring circus, this book will really help you get your priorities straight.

If you listen to nothing else on performing at your highest level, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you focus on what matters, manage your energy and attention, and achieve remarkable results. This book will inspire you to improve on your weaknesses, not just your strengths; rise above the pack; take care of your physical health for sustained mental performance; understand what motivates you; use short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations; and inspire others.

A legacy work from the multimillion copy best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - hailed as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century - The 3rd Alternative introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving.

Technology - at least in theory - is improving our productivity, efficiency, and communication. The one thing it's not doing is making us happier. We are experiencing historically high levels of depression and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't have to be that way. Technology can drive - not diminish - human happiness.

Over 10 years of research lead to Alan Coulter writing the original book in 2014 which has now been updated with the latest methods for 2019. Cutting through the nonsense, this book offers a simple and easy-to-understand solution to beating procrastination and getting more done in life. No fancy gimmicks - just solid and actionable advice.

Ser solo efectivos como individuos y organizaciones ya no es una opción. Para triunfar, sobrevivir, innovar, sobresalir y liderar en lo que llama Covey la era del Nuevo Trabajador Informado, nosotros debemos sentar bases e ir más allá de la efectividad...a la grandeza.

Every day, we set out to create a better life, a better career, or a better business. We often fail because we fall into old patterns. But what if by devoting just one single, focused hour a week you could make big improvements in your professional life? And what if you knew in advance exactly what to focus on so that you could utterly destroy your old patterns?

A little book full of advice on how to avoid procrastination, create motivation, and be altogether more productive on a daily basis. If you want to have more success getting more work done each day, start here! If you want to impress your boss, also start here! Give it a listen, and I'll share my tips on goal priority, visual cues, and more!

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team: the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations.

Ari Schultz was an extraordinary baby, beginning life in a pitched battle against heart disease. For the next five years, Erica and Mike Schultz learned how to balance the demands of their jobs, commuting to the hospital, and spending time with their growing family - along the way, noting the tricks and techniques that allowed them to get work done, even while living in the cardiac ICU and later through heartbreaking loss. After reflection and recovery, Mike and Erica codified their method of coping and working, and set out to study the work habits of extremely productive people.

Die Neuausgabe von "Joy at Work": Jetzt mit Zusatzkapiteln zum Arbeiten im Homeoffice! Marie Kondo zeigt, wie die weltberühmte KonMari-Methode auch am Arbeitsplatz zu mehr Zufriedenheit führt. Gemeinsam mit Scott Sonenshein, Experte für Unternehmensorganisation, versammelt sie u. a. für die Bereiche Zeitmanagement, Führung, gute Kommunikation und produktive Meetings zahlreiche praktische Tipps, die den Lesern bei der Organisation ihres Arbeitslebens helfen.

There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all productivity plan. The tricks that work for your colleague may not work as well for you. Or perhaps they don’t work at all. The fact is that everyone has their own productivity quirks to make them work efficiently and effectively. They just don’t know how to crack them.

Managers and other employees spend more than 40 percent of their time listening to other people but often do it so poorly that the result is millions of dollars' worth of mistakes, just because most people don't know how to listen. In this new edition of her classic guide to the art of effective listening, Madelyn Burley-Allen tells you how to acquire active, productive listening skills and put them to work for you professionally, socially, and personally.

Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you’d rather not do. As consultants, Steve Levinson and Chris Cooper have seen countless clients struggle - and often fail - to do the many success-producing things they know they should do but don’t feel like doing. The Power to Get Things Done will teach you how to consistently turn your good intentions into action so that you can be as successful as possible.

The key to getting what you want from life is to set clear goals that are backed up with a consistent routine. Research by Harvard and MIT found that immediately following sleep, your mind and body are most readily active. Focused, productive, and successful mornings generate focused, productive, and successful days - which inevitably create a successful life.

Work. Sleep. Fitness. Family. Friends. Pick Three. In an increasingly demanding world, we've been told that we can do everything - maintain friendships, devote ourselves to work, spend time with family, stay fit, and get enough sleep. We just need to learn to balance it all. Randi Zuckerberg doesn't believe in being well-balanced. We can't do it all every day, she contends, and trying to do so only leaves us frustrated and feeling inadequate. But we can succeed if we Pick Three.

The art of self-improvement and creating a life worth living.

It's official. For the first time, the World Health Organization has classified burnout as a health problem. Renowned motivational speaker Eileen McDargh proposes that to tackle it, we must learn to break out of energy-draining thoughts and behaviors. Resilience, she argues, is strictly a matter of energy management - by better managing your energy, you can both build resiliency and overcome burnout. McDargh guides the listener through the process of identifying energy drains and implementing strategies for handling them, whatever phase of life you are in.

Want to create new habits? Become more disciplined? Change your life in any way whatsoever? Strategy comes later. First and foremost, you need the energy to take these challenges on. Learn to become your own battery. Fix fatigue, laziness, apathy, and sloth. Have More Energy is a guide to becoming insanely energetic. It addresses what drains you, what energizes you, and everything in between. It goes deep into the psychology and physiology of energy to make sure that symptoms as well as root causes are addressed.