Extreme Productivity, Robert C. Pozen
Extreme Productivity, Robert C. Pozen
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Extreme Productivity
Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

Author: Robert C. Pozen

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/09/2013

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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 Robert C. Pozen

Robert C. Pozen teaches at MIT Sloan School of Management. He was President of Fidelity Investments and Executive Chair of MFS Investment Management, and served as a senior official in both the federal and state government. He is also the author of six books, including Extreme Productivity, one of the top rated business books of 2012. He offers MIT courses for executives on personal productivity, and has been teaching online since the spring of 2020. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

Great book. Summary of Chapter 1 1. This is worth reading. Summary of Chapter 2 1. Overcome procrastination -Don’t try methods of unstructuring procrastination -Set mini-deadlines and reward yourself for meeting them. -Make yourself accountable to someone. 2. Don’t give into the face time=productivity......more

Goodreads review by Juliana

I have read the book 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris a number of times because it has some good tips in it about being effectively productive. But it is also not a very practical book--for instance, I'm not planning on quitting my job anytime soon to take up Argentinean dance nor do I want to com......more

Goodreads review by Scott

I wish I had read this book before I read this book, because I would know that skipping a few of the less worthwhile chapters would have been more productive. Other than that, it was quite useful.......more

Goodreads review by Kendra

Oh man. I'll tell you how this guy achieved levels of "extreme productivity." His wife did everything. He says "as a regular habit, I leave work in time to get home by 7pm and have dinner with my family." How nice that everything was done for him. He does vaguely address gender roles and how they ha......more