18 Minutes, Peter Bregman
18 Minutes, Peter Bregman
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18 Minutes
Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

Author: Peter Bregman

Narrator: Peter Bregman

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Business Plus

Published: 09/28/2011

Synopsis

Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 Minutes clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.

Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us.

Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies, Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide us --pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or less.

About Peter Bregman

Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, a firm that advises, coaches, and trains leaders at all levels to take powerful and ambitious actions to achieve the things that are most important to them and their organizations. He is the author of 18 Minutes (a Wall Street Journal bestseller) and Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change, and the contributor to five other books. He is a regular contributor to HBR.org, NPR, Psychology Today, Forbes, Fast Company, and other media outlets, and he is a weekly commentator on FOX Business News. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on December 27, 2011

Peter Bregman is an author and business consultant whose book 18 Minutes provides a good way to focus on your life in the year ahead. Some of my key takeaways from this book. 1. Find your focus for the coming year by leveraging your strengths, embracing your weaknesses, asserting your differences, an......more

Goodreads review by Beth on December 26, 2011

I know I've had this on my currently reading shelf forever, but I swear I'm going to finish it, because it has some great ideas on how to stay focused on goals and not get off into the timewasters that will destroy the best-laid plans. Plus, a lot of it reinforces what I already do, which I enjoy al......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on May 01, 2022

A couple of people mentioned this book recently, and I was due for a spot of feel-good generic productivity blather, so I gave it a skim-read. It is everything you would expect: a for-us-by-us manual for rich white guys to waste a bit less time. Couple of useful ideas padded with endless irritating......more

Goodreads review by Nanette on March 14, 2012

I sought this book after hearing a radio interview with the author. The interview was great. The book? Not so much. I don't understand why so many writers of self-help books feel compelled to write in short, choppy, and annoyingly grammatically incorrect sentences. Do the publishers mandate this? Do......more

Goodreads review by Rob on December 18, 2014

18 minutes my oh my... This book at first look was another TimeMangement book. I didn't want to read another time management book. The best way I can save time is not reading a book in the first place. However. There are some great takeaways from this book. It's worth the read just to get the system......more

Quotes

18 MINUTES is an intensely smart, insanely readable, and eminently practical guide to boosting our effectiveness and deepening our satisfaction. I've already benefited from the ideas in is book in my own work. So will you.


—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind

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