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Being Productive

Being Productive

150 min read · 86 pages

This guide covers the world's best thinking on how to make the most effective use of your time, energy and attention.

The tips, strategies and research covered will help you:

Define your priorities

Filter opportunities

Decline requests

Delegate effectively

Efficiently manage tasks

Optimise your schedule

Overcome procrastination

Stop multistasking

Develop & maintain focus

Avoid digital distractions

Tame your emails

Have better meetings

Gain valuable insights from:

10 Days to Faster Reading
15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
An Edited Life
Anything You Want
Brave New Work
Brilliant meetings
Flow
Deep Work
Digital Minimalism
Eat That Frog!
Essentialism
Extreme Productivity
Getting Results the Agile Way
Getting Things Done
HBR Guide to Being More Productive
HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter
High Output Management
How to Break Up With Your Phone
How to Read a Book
It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
Lifehacker
Managing Oneself
Manage Your Day-to-Day
Meetings Suck
Never Check Email in the Morning
No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs
Personal Kanban
Principles
Read This Before Your Next Meeting
Ready for Anything
Rest
Rework
Seneca on the Shortness of Life
Smarter Faster Better
Smarter Living
Solving the Procrastination Puzzle
The 4 Disciplines of Execution
The 5 Second Rule
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The Art of Concentration
The Art of Life Admin
The Creative Habit
The Distraction Addiction
The Dip
The Fearless Organization
The New One Minute Manager
The Now Habit
The Organized Mind
The Procrastination Equation
The Productive Person
The Productivity Project
Time Smart
Stop Procrastinating
Supercharge Productivity Habits
The 4-Hour Work Week
The 80 20 Principle
The Art of Being Unreasonable
The One Thing
The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
The Shallows
The Surprising Science of Meetings
Unsubscribe
When
Will there be Donuts?

Plus key takeaways from numerous articles and studies, as well as advice from leading thinkers including: Elon Musk - Barack Obama - Ernest Hemingway - Seneca - Naval Ravikant - Steve Jobs - Paul Graham - Warren Buffet - Jim Collins - Marc Andreessen - Tim Ferriss - Peter Drucker - Apple - Amazon - Google.

Effective Communication

Effective Communication

90 min read · 51 pages

This guide sets-out a wide range of advice, techniques and frameworks that can be used to communicate more effectively.

The tips, strategies and research covered will help you:

Craft effective messages

Remain clear and concise

Give better presentations

Tackle difficult questions

Listen actively

Manage non-verbal cues

Ask better questions

Provide effective feedback

Excel in video calls

Structure writing logically

Overcome writer's block

Edit effectively

Gain valuable insights from:

4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication
Brief
Communicate to Influence
Difficult Conversations
Do I Make Myself Clear?
Editors on Editing
Ernest Hemingway on Writing
GQ How to Win at Life
HBR's 10 Must Reads On Public Speaking and Presenting
HBR Guide to Better Business Writing
HBR's 10 Must Reads On Communication
How to Communicate
How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking
How to Own the Room
How to Talk to Anyone
How to Win Friends an Influence People
Is that Clear?
Made to Stick
Messengers
Nine Lies About Work
Nonviolent Communication
Talk Lean
Talk Like TED
Teach Like a Champion
TED Talks
Thanks for the Feedback
The Definitive Book of Body Language
The Effective Manager
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
The Pyramid Principle
The Sense of Style
You Talkin' to Me?
Your Brain at Work

Plus key takeaways from numerous articles and studies, as well as advice from leading thinkers including: Daniel Kahneman - Chris Anderson - Guy Kawasaki - William Hague - Bill Gates - George Orwell - Ernest Hemingway - Plato - Terry Gross - Harry Truman.

Career Development

Career Development

150 min read · 84 pages

This guide covers the world's best thinking on how to determine which careers you are suited to, secure a job that aligns with these and then thrive within it.

The tips, strategies and research covered will help you:

Decide what to do

Find new opportunities

Build your network

Craft an effective CV

Deal with interviews

Find a mentor

Ask for feedback

Develop career resilience

Avoid burnout

Negotiate a pay rise

Make a career change

Strategically pursue success

Gain valuable insights from:

Bullshit Jobs
Designing Your Life
Drive
Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Player
Give and Take
Grit
HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
How to Work Without Losing Your Mind
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Ikigai
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be
Little Black Book
Managing Oneself
Mindset
Originals
Origins of Genius
Outliers
Predictable Surprises
Range
Social Chemistry
Soft Skills
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Success and Luck
The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention
The Black Swan
The Career Playbook
The Checklist Manifesto
The Class Ceiling
The Defining Decade
The Design of Everyday Things
The Element
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The Monk and the Riddle
The New Rules of Work
The Prophet
The Purpose Myth
The Secrets of Consulting
The Serendipity Mindset
The Success Equation
Think and Grow Rich
Tools of Titans
Tribe of Mentors
Who Moved My Cheese?
Work
Why do so Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders
Zero to One

Plus key takeaways from numerous articles and studies, as well as advice from leading thinkers including: Peter Thiel - Steve Jobs - Paul Graham - Warren Buffet - Tim Ferriss - Peter Drucker - Henry Ford.

Managing Habits

Managing Habits

40 min read · 22 pages

This guide explores the science of habit formation and looks at the practical steps that we can take to achieve sustainable behaviour change.

The tips, strategies and research covered will help you:

Establish good habits

Break bad habits

Craft effective goals

Resist temptations

Gain valuable insights from:

Atomic Habits
Awaken the Giant Within
Hooked
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Switch
The Power of Habit
Tiny Habits

Plus key takeaways from numerous articles and studies, as well as advice from leading thinkers including: .

Decision-Making

Decision-Making

Life presents us with a steady stream of decisions that need to be made. These range from the mundane and trivial to the profound and life-altering. Particularly when the stakes are high, our ability to make good decisions will, to a large extent, define the quality of our career, relationships and wellbeing. This guide considers how we can best approach those decisions that are neither trivial, reactive nor obvious. It explores a range of theories, philosophies, techniques and recent insights from research that can help us avoid common pitfalls, optimise our approach and maximise our chances of choosing well.