Highly reviewed productivity books

I’m not a master for performance and productivity. I am a author, a husband, a believer and a father with many duties and new challenges that always come to me. I’ve written this short, fast-paced, pragmatic efficiency guide to share what I’ve learned to do in the digital modern times. It’s very easy to lead a peaceful and organized life, assured of your obligations and sure of your success.

The book is packed with methods, strategies, and expert knowldedge you can’t find anywhere else. All has been analyzed, discussed and adapted in a manner to my own life inside this book. I used hundreds of strategies and philosophies in high-stakeholder agreements, high-risk situations, and major company transactions. The courses made me millions of dollars and saved me years of disappointment and unnecessary work. I built this book for myself, my ultimate high-leverage device notebook. My life has changed, so I expect the same will happen to you.

Considering different types of relaxation, from sleep to holiday, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, futurist and company strategist in Silicon Valley, dispels the idea that the more we work, the better the outcome. The real secret to success is deliberate rest, as Pang calls it, and it gives us more energy, clearer understandings, and a happier life. Rest provides a guide to rediscover the importance of relaxation in our lives, and a compelling suggestion that if we ever want to get things done, we better sleep more.

This book is a roadmap to shorten the time of execution from 1 year to 12 weeks. The 12 Week Year removes annualized thinking’s pitfalls and poor productivity. This books shrinks in twelve weeks the full year. There’s still not enough time in 12 weeks to be complacent, and pressure is rising and intensifying. The 12 Week Year provides emphasis and insight on what is most important and a sense of urgency to do it immediately. Actually more of the relevant things are done and the effect on performance is intense. It explains how to harness the strength of a 12-week year to achieve better outcomes in every area of your life.

Focus, one of our economy’s most important skill is becoming exceedingly rare. Deep work is the ability to concentrate on a cognitively difficult task without interruption. It’s a talent that helps you to learn complex data easily and with less time achieve good outcomes. Deep work should enhance your quality and give you the feeling of real satisfaction that comes from craftsmanship. In brief, in our highly dynamic twenty-first-century world, deep work is like a superpower. Still, many people lose the opportunity to enjoy their days profoundly alone in a frenzied swirl of email and social networks, not knowing better ways. A combination of cultural critique and actionable tips, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through unforgettable stories from Carl Jung. DEEP WORK is an invaluable roadmap for anybody in a busy environment looking for finding back their focus.

David Allen’s Getting Things Done has been one of the most popular business books of his era since it was first released almost fifteen years ago, and the definitive book on private organisation. Allen has revised the book from beginning to end, tweaking his classic text with important insights on the new world, and adding material to make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This latest version of Getting Things Done will be embraced not only by its hundreds of thousands of loyal followers, but also by a whole new generation ready to follow its proven values.

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyis well-known studies of optimum perception have shown that a state of consciousness called “flow” is what makes an experience genuinely satisfying. People usually feel intense happiness, imagination, and full dedication to life during such a “flow”. Csikszentmihalyi shows that this positive state can be managed, not just left to chance, in this latest version of his pioneering classic work. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience explains that we can find real satisfaction and dramatically enhance the quality of our lives by organizing the knowledge that reaches our consciousness.

The Pomodoro Technique puts you back in control of your day. You will use effective strategies to determine what you are going to do today to help you accomplish your goals. Once completely engaged in brief periods of concentrated action, the mind does not drift and stays focus on your objectives. Using nothing more than paper, pencil, and a basic timer to learn to work less and do better. This unique approach to timeboxing is at the heart of the Pomodoro Technique and this book is packed with advices about how to get going and how to apply it on a daily basis.

The digital revolution drowns us in an unparalleled deluge of information and data. On a everyday basis more choices and judments are expected to be taken than ever before. Yet some people get very good at handling this flow of data. Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the recent brain research in The Organized Mind to demonstrate how these people succeed and how you could use their strategies to get a sense of control over time and never stopping solicitations. Levitin shows that modern insights into the behavioral psychology of attention and memory can be extended to our everyday lives with informative, engaging chapters on everything from kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow. The Organized Mind reveals how to tackle the churning stream of knowledge in the twenty-first century.