Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
Written by Robert C. Pozen
Narrated by Arthur Morey
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About this audiobook
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.
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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5great read, very relevant advice, especially for the overworked professional with family.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Self glorifying bibliography with very unremarkable tips for productivity. Written in a very boring, author centric way that feels like a laundry list of commands rather than a story with lessons. Other books cover the same material and are more engaging.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When an audio book starts with the authors life story describing the childhood and the narrator is Arthur Morey—you’ve got a classic! Great quality. Great content.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5empty noting worth to put in your mind starting with huge promise and give you nothing
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alot of great tips, the end dove too deep into financial boards
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love the detailed and practical tips presented by the author
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book with useful tips. Helped me to review how I work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you follow the tips in this book your productivity will increase.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really worthy reading. Lots of valuable tips found in this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really helpful and actionable advice this was a book i learned a lot from