HBR guide. How to become more productive

There are days when it seems to you that you can never do everything that is required of you - no matter how long and diligently you work. Your schedule is overloaded, someone constantly requires something from you in an urgent manner, colleagues twitch and distract-it is not surprising that you feel overwork and burnout at work. Is it possible to change this pace in your favor? This book contains the latest and most interesting ideas on increasing productivity from the best specialists in this field. You will learn how to learn to manage your tasks and attention. With the help of small, but targeted changes, you can control your concentration: to protect yourself from everything that prevents you from and plan your days and weeks so that you have time for concentrated work and restoring breaks.

both in the office and at remote work, this book will help you:

• to determine the most significant tasks;
• to develop willpower and develop awareness; < /li>
• find time for rest;
• achieve success in what is most important;
• do not spoil the vacation with additional work before and after;
• Restore forces with the help of meaningful breaks;
• establish frames for annoying colleagues.

simply offering employees of mental labor to rethink the distribution of their working day and slightly change the balance, we helped them to release them Almost a fifth of the time (and this is almost a full work day with a five -day working week) - and focus on these acquired hours on more important tasks. Why does sprint help the teams perform a larger amount of work? The point here is not only in speed. A powerful impulse, concentration and confidence are simply created. Companies using this method (in various areas such as medicine, robotics, coffee production, etc.) see impressive results. In a critical situation, doctors decide: who needs to be saved immediately, who can wait, who does not need help at all, and who is too late to try to save. For us, sorting is not only concentration on the most important and postponing less important for later, but also the active ignoring of a huge number of things, the degree of importance of which is below a certain threshold.