"I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?"
Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, "First Things First" can help you understand why so often our first things aren't first. Rather than offering you another clock, "First Things First" provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going.

Non-office based work is here to stay, but everyone experiences it differently. Find out how to make working at home and remote work, work for you. How to Work Remotely will help anyone adapt to home, remote and hybrid working. Suitable for homeworkers, or the managers and leaders of homeworkers, this highly practical book will address how to be successful and build a career while working remotely, or away from the office. Packed with practical exercises and top tips, the book includes advice on wellbeing when working from home, how to get organized, how to start a new role when you're not in the office and suggestions on the best ways to be productive. HR specialist Gemma Dale also explains about managing the performance of remote and hybrid teams and effectively making home working accessible for all colleagues. The Creating Success series of books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

What helps employees to perform well and stay healthy under high levels of stress? What are the factors that distinguish those employees? What are the best ways to recover from a stressful day at work? How can employees proactively address stressors they encounter at work, and how can they move from "coping" to "thriving"? Can stress even have positive consequences? Most employees can recall times when they have dealt with the stress they were under at work, even coming out stronger as a result of performing well under difficult conditions. Yet many approaches to stress at work view stress as a toxic experience that should be avoided at all costs, and do not recognize how stress might be used to facilitate personal growth, professional development, and higher levels of performance. In this book, Britt and Jex describe how stressful working conditions can produce positive outcomes when employees approach demands in the right way, focus on the meaning and significance of their work, and recover appropriately from stressful working conditions, both during the day and when at home. The book encourages employees to view themselves as active constructors of their work environment who are capable of proactively addressing many of the demands they encounter, instead of being passive recipients of work stressors. To help readers reach the goal of thriving under stressful work, application exercises are provided in each chapter of the book. In these exercises, employees consider how they are currently responding to work stressors, how they might identify the significance and importance of their work, and identify ways they can better recover from work demands. Given the importance of managers in creating the conditions necessary for employees to thrive under stressful conditions, each chapter also includes a box with recommendations for managers who are looking to reduce the negative effects of stress at work, enhance the positive effects, and create a work environment where employees can thrive.

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With 97 short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice. Managing people is hard, and the industry as a whole is bad at it. Many managers lack the experience, training, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. From mentoring interns to working in senior management, this book will take you through the stages of management and provide actionable advice on how to approach the obstacles you'll encounter as a technical manager. A few of the 97 things you should know: "Three Ways to Be the Manager Your Report Needs" by Duretti Hirpa "The First Two Questions to Ask When Your Team Is Struggling" by Cate Huston "Fire Them!" by Mike Fisher "The 5 Whys of Organizational Design" by Kellan Elliott-McCrea "Career Conversations" by Raquel Velez "Using 6-Page Documents to Close Decisions" by Ian Nowland "Ground Rules in Meetings" by Lara Hogan

The Holistic Lawyer shows legal professionals that there is a way to keep up their standards without getting overwhelmed. Ritu Goswamy, lawyer and productivity consultant, builds on her successful New Billable Hour (TM) program in The Holistic Lawyer where she reveals tools to level up legal professionals' practice even more, using one of their biggest resources: their own brain. The Holistic Lawyer teaches readers how to move from overwhelm to efficiency and reach maximum success in their professional and personal life. Within its pages, Ritu teaches legal professionals: Why lawyers overwork...and how to stop How they can use their brain instead of letting it use them Why working hard to prove competence is counterproductive How increasing their emotional intelligence makes them more ethical What steps to take to work more efficiently The legal profession is changing rapidly. It's time for lawyers to work smarter not harder, and Ritu is going to show them how.

The average person checks email 77 times a day, sends and receives more than 122 email messages a day and spends nearly a third of their workweek managing a constant influx of email. Even when we're away from work, checking email is the most popular activity we engage in on our mobile devices. Email is a powerful and essential tool - but it has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety and distraction from our work. In this insightful and intensely practical book, Jocelyn K. Glei explains why email is so overwhelming and addicting, and lays out strategies for limiting the energy you spend on it. These include setting meaningful work goals, clarifying to yourself which people and messages truly matter and creating a daily routine that aligns with your natural creative rhythms. Through her actionable, thoughtful advice, Glei will help you to: - Stop letting email dictate your mood, your focus and your to-do list - Process your inbox efficiently - Compose messages that get people to take action - Establish boundaries that allow you to engage in more meaningful work.

How to be REALLY Productive has been officially announced as winner of 'The Commuter's Read' category for the 2017 Management Book of the Year award by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the British Library. In the opinion of the awarding judges, this book will best serve commuters and retain their attention during a journey to work by inspiring them, informing them about and engaging them with a management and leadership topic. ***************************** If you want to know what it takes to be REALLY productive, read this. It's not just about to-do lists and managing your emails - it's about productivity you can really feel and a getting a better quality of life. 'This book will challenge you to think differently about your work... and probably your life, too!' Graham Allcott, author of How to be a Productivity Ninja 'I guarantee that you'll keep coming back to this book for a refresher course in how to maintain balance in your life.' June Dennis, Head of the University of Wolverhampton Business School This book will change what you think it takes to be productive. True productivity in a world where the work never ends is not about working harder, faster or longer. It's about working smarter, doing your best work and coming home knowing you delivered. You've already tried those other, old time-management techniques, but when you're drowning in emails, meeting requests, deadlines, competing priorities, and never-ending to-do lists - they just haven't worked! There's always way too much to do and never enough time. This is a better way. How To Be Really Productive gives you practical guidance and key skills that will give you the freedom, space and mindset you need to get organised, focused and in control, to manage your workload and other people's expectations and to get more of the right things done. So take control today and discover a new, empowering approach that will banish the stress, pressure and craziness and leave you feeling calm, balanced and really, really productive.

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021 SHORTLISTED TITLE*** Does all the good stuff only happen at weekends? Have Sunday evenings become depressing, as the working days ahead come into view? Has your week been reduced to pointless meetings, over-complicated tasks and disillusioned colleagues? You're convinced there's a better way of getting things done. But where to start? Well, this book has the answers. David Mansfield shows you how to reclaim your work week. In a lifetime of work, David has encountered, tolerated, conquered and failed at most of the things you've come to accept as the natural order. The business world is a messy place. Processes and systems that were meant to help result in information overload, and just staying on top of the day-to-day feels like some sort of result. But there are solutions, and The Monday Revolution has them. Every chapter contains stories, anecdotes and uncomplicated real-world advice on how you can Revolutionise your working life. Simple, immediate, actionable examples show how directors, managers and business owners can get more done, more quickly. David covers all the basics needed to fast track profitable growth. If you want to look back on your working week with satisfaction and eagerly anticipate the next, read this book. And start your own Monday Revolution, this week.

The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensations The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, You Do You, and Calm the F**k Down.

How to stop saying yes when you can't, you shouldn't, or you just don't want to

With 2 million copies sold worldwide, Sarah Knight's bestselling No F*cks Given Guides prove that she's the Queen of No: no to a single extraneous f*ck given, to unwanted obligations, overcommitting, and overcomplicating her life.

For Sarah, saying no is easy. For the rest of us, it's stress-inducing, blood pressure-raising, teeth-grinding hard. But it doesn't have to be. F**k No! is filled with tips, techniques, and practical strategies that will arm you with not only permission to decline, but plenty of ammunition for doing so.

An encyclopedia of examples, a cornucopia of comebacks, a plethora of polite replies: if you're looking to say no (and without being selfish, unlikeable, or mired in missing out), you've come to the right place.

Overscheduled by Success is a 5-step proven process for influential leaders to reclaim their time and take their life and work to the next level. Many influential leaders are doing great things and making a real difference in the world. But these leaders often find that they're too busy to accomplish some of their most important personal and professional goals. Many begin wondering if they are actually getting the level of results they're looking for. Instead of feeling joyful and inspired, their demanding schedule often leaves them feeling tired and frustrated rather than being able to enjoy the process. Inside, Dr. Ron Stotts shows leaders how to accomplish their highest goals while taking even better care of themselves by: Reclaiming their time so they can do what matters most. Discovering the truth about what it is that they actually keep bumping up against. (Note: This is probably not what many think it is, and that's actually good news!) Bringing a whole new level of balance, inspiration, and creativity into their life and work. Learning how to avoid wasting their time, money, and effort on fleeting life improvements and instead, implement lasting change. Turning their current struggle into the most fulfilling journey of their life. For influential leaders looking for a deeper solution to their time problem, Overscheduled by Success is the guide to follow.

For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an individual scale, many of the traditional social, political, and cultural habits of mind and ways of being that evolved under the regime of the clock are changing rapidly, including the way individuals save, spend, and optimize time. At the organizational level, the pacing of innovation, levels of production, and new product development, are no longer temporally fixed due to the effects of living in a networked society and in the networked economy. 24/7 brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to analyze the differing relationships to time in an accelerated society. Offering much-needed insight and perspective into new issues and problems, this unique volume is the first to offer a wide range of cutting-edge thought on the new economic, cultural, and political world of the networked society. The book includes contributions from the leading scholars in this area, such as Barbara Adam, Mike Crang, Thomas Hylland Erikson, and Geert Lovink.

For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an individual scale, many of the traditional social, political, and cultural habits of mind and ways of being that evolved under the regime of the clock are changing rapidly, including the way individuals save, spend, and optimize time. At the organizational level, the pacing of innovation, levels of production, and new product development, are no longer temporally fixed due to the effects of living in a networked society and in the networked economy. 24/7 brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to analyze the differing relationships to time in an accelerated society. Offering much-needed insight and perspective into new issues and problems, this unique volume is the first to offer a wide range of cutting-edge thought on the new economic, cultural, and political world of the networked society. The book includes contributions from the leading scholars in this area, such as Barbara Adam, Mike Crang, Thomas Hylland Erikson, and Geert Lovink.

Entrepreneurs are smart, confident, good at what they do, and help their clients get amazing results. Often times they are busy, stressed, and overwhelmed which holds them back from the success and the difference they really want to make. Some days seem like a never-ending to-do list, then there are webinars, podcasts, newsletters, social media-and the pace keeps picking up. They wonder if they'll ever get on top of things and feel in control again. The cost to their business is enormous. When they procrastinate, feel paralyzed, avoid making decisions, or have trouble focusing on the most important actions to take, they end up being less productive and effective. Traditional time-management approaches encourage entrepreneurs to speed up, fit more in, and be more efficient - so they can cross everything off their to-do list. However, they don't stop to consider that maybe they shouldn't be trying to do everything on their to-do list in the first place. Bottom line? When you work for yourself, you simply can't afford to be overwhelmed, stressed, or scattered. When you're overwhelmed or too busy, focusing on getting more done isn't the answer. So what is the answer? In My Desk is Driving Me Crazy you'll discover how to easily sort through what is important and what isn't-and let the unimportant things go-so you can put your energy on what truly matters to you instead, with ease and clarity.

WHAT IS ENOUGH? Time enjoyed slowly. Choices made intentionally. Life lived gracefully Without realizing, we make many of our life choices based on the whims of others. It's time to change paths. Welcome to the richer journey, which requires you to come face to face with who you really are and what you want. With minimalist and slow living writer Jessica Rose Williams as your guide, build a curated, simpler, more intuitive life founded on your personal values and desires. At 25, Jessica was diagnosed with cervical cancer. The shock compelled her to question her fast-paced consumerist lifestyle, one designed around pleasing others. Enough is her heartfelt story of turning away from a life of regret, and it is also an invitation for you to begin your own transformation. Make sustainable changes for real impact, discover your style and capsule wardrobe, learn to let go of what doesn't serve you, simplify and organize your home and finances, reclaim your free time, and go deeper to consider what quiet thoughts a noisy life might have been drowning out. Embrace a mindset of enough and the power that comes from realizing you're already enough, right now - just as you are.

Want more time in your life for yourself, for your hobbies and for your family? Are you exhausted, stressed, overworked, and only able to give your friends and loved ones the "leftovers" of your energy and time? Does it feel like your tasks are never ending, your to-do list never any shorter and that you never have time (or the energy) to do the things you enjoy? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then you are suffering from LDD - Lifestyle Deficit Disorder. Lifestyle Deficit Disorder is common in today's world, but you don't have to continue to let it control your life and your destiny. From work with her clients over the past decade as a financial advisor, Cokie Berenyi has developed a system that is the surefire cure to Lifestyle Deficit Disorder. Her simple to follow plan outlined in Perfect Day provides the framework you need to create more Perfect Days. In warm, accessible language and engaging anecdotes gleaned from her client files, Cokie Berenyi takes you on a journey of self-actualization, helping you design your Perfect Day Pyramid, uncover and avoid your "wobble" and build a life-centered business, not a business-centered life. Through simple steps and strategies you can put into place today, Perfect Day offers a powerful antidote to LDD, revealing a path away from disillusionment and dissatisfaction to a life of purpose, joy, and freedom. Perfect Days are not hard - let Cokie teach you how to craft and simply execute more Perfect Days.

"What is time then?" asked St. Augustine some 1,600 years ago. It was a question he could not answer, and over the centuries that followed, it was one that few scholars dared to address. Yet there are answers to this question of the true nature of time, and this book discusses several of them as a means of approaching its central concern: that humanity creates a variety of times and these different times affect the experiences of life--as times vary, so does life. Not so much focusing on watches, clocks, and calendars (though these are covered), the author argues that time is a fundamental component of the technological development of humanity.
The book addresses the relationships between time and life on three fundamental premises: (1) all times are not the same, (2) all times are social constructions, and (3) the times humanity creates direct the way humanity lives. The book addresses the major ways in which times differ (polychronicity, speed and punctuality, and orientation to past, present and future), how these differences are coordinated (entrainment), and how these differences affect human life, including such extreme effects that produce the best and worst of times. Building on these differences and the effects they produce, the author examines the possibility of humanity consciously creating more good times than bad. Throughout the analysis, a vital connection between time and life gradually emerges, namely, the impact of time on the meaning of life itself.
Materials from several disciplines inform the discussions, notably theory and research from the social and behavioral sciences, in particular the organization sciences. The author uses historical examples extensively throughout the book, but also presents new results that derive from original data he has collected.
The book will be valuable not only to those involved in the management and organization sciences, but also to sociologists and psychologists, who have largely avoided coming to terms with one of the central issues of human life--time.

How do highly-successful people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates get so much done? The answer is time blocking; a time-management method that Cal Newport, productivity expert and bestselling author of Digital Minimalism, has been using for fifteen years. For the first time, this game-changing system has been captured in a daily planner that makes it easy for you to prioritise tasks and focus on the things that really matter. Using the time-block method you'll no longer be distracted by your inbox, social media and other peoples' demands for your time. The Time-Block Planner will help you push aside distractions and focus on the work that will make the difference to you.

We live in a world that is broken. For those who believe that there "must "be a more efficient way for people to get things done, here from Scrum pioneer Jeff Sutherland is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the management process that is changing the way we live.
In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating ""before "Scrum" and ""after" Scrum." Scrum is "that" ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world's top technology companies. And now it's starting to spread to every domain where people wrestle with complex projects.
If you've ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded, and there's no more lucid - or "compelling" - explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago.
The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things quickly and efficiently. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact.
In this book you'll journey to Scrum's front lines where Jeff's system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores.
Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines, "Scrum "is consistently riveting. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable - whether it be inventing a trailblazing technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for your family to thrive and prosper.

Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing the latest problems. This churn and burn is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout. In this updated edition, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. Through simple solutions that make work visible, DeGrandis helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. Chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization. And now, with this updated second edition, readers will get more exercises plus a new afterword from the author featuring new learnings from the past five years. The technology world and indeed the whole business world is moving at a pace faster than ever before, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Instead of consigning ourselves to the pressure cooker of the modern world, it's time to elevate how we work. It's time to level up our game. It's time to make work visible.

How do both elite athletes and business leaders climb to the top? Contrary to what you might think, it's effective habits rather than innate talent that are their keys to success. Dr. Jason Selk,director of mental training for the 2011 World Series Champions, the St. Louis Cardinals,and star business coach Tom Bartow combine the most effective elements of both their disciplines to offer an organizational improvement plan that anyone can learn and apply immediately.They outline eight fundamental ways to get organized, including the "time paradox," which allows precision to set your schedule free, and a two-minute mental training drill that will start your day with focus, confidence, and energy. Organize Tomorrow Today helps readers to move past their performance roadblocks and achieve more productive lives.