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Single Tasking

12/4/2016

 
Singletasking: Get More Done-One Thing at a Time
If you feel like you need a time management course because you can’t get everything done, you might just need to learn to focus on one thing at a time instead.

Singletasking outlines both an argument for doing one thing at a time and tips for how to do it in a world where multitasking is considered a superpower

Mistakes I Made at Work

3/27/2016

 
​A collection of lessons learned from successful women, this book will give you some great insights. Each chapter is an interview with a woman who tells her story and gives you an inside look at what she learned along the way. 

Bold: How to Be Brave in Business and Win

2/20/2016

 
Bold: How to Be Brave in Business and Win
So much of the focus these days is on tech start-ups. It gives a general sense that the only way to be a cool, energized company is to be working out of a co-working space and worried about your next round of funding. Bold is about huge, long standing, mostly non-tech businesses that are successful, innovative, cool, and energized. The book is basically a collection of case studies of 14 companies. Each chapter highlights a company as told by 4-6 employees of the company (and sometimes a customer). It is like having a conversation with the leadership team of companies like Virgin Galactic, O2, BBH, and Geek Squad.

If you are looking for some inspiration for how to put some energy back into your company, you will find the guidance you need in this book, while also learning a lot about the interworkings of some of the world’s most successful companies.

Work Simply 

2/20/2016

 
Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style
​The central thesis of this book is that there are 4 different productivity styles, and by knowing yours, you can become more productive.
After taking a quick assessment to determine your style, the rest of the book covers how to better organize your work so that it emphasizes your strengths. As a side benefit, you also learn how people with productivity styles different from yours work best, which will help you start to adjust your approach when working with someone who has a different style.
If you’ve ever gotten a ‘time management’ tip from a friend or coworker and it didn’t work for you, it is probably because their productivity style is different from yours.
Instead of giving ‘hacks’ for productivity, this book helps you understand and embrace what works and doesn’t work for you, and the tools to adjust your work so that it will work better for you. 

I Know How She Does it

10/31/2015

 
I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
​This is a book for women. Men need not apply. However, for working women who feel like ‘there’s never enough time’ reading this book will give you a new perspective.
There were several surprising lessons I took away from this book, all centered around the lies that we tell ourselves about time. If you feel like you don’t have time to do things you enjoy, you don’t have time to exercise, or you don’t get enough sleep, you will find when you read this book that you’ve been telling yourself a big fat lie. You have the time. You are getting enough sleep. You are just caught up in the narrative that society has accepted as truth.
Getting a glimpse into other professional women’s schedules was very gratifying. There is instructional value in being able to take a look at someone else’s life who has a similar circumstance. For me, the best part was that I found that I’m not alone. My life doesn’t look all that different from someone else’s. There is comfort in that. But, I also got a lot of great ideas about how to take better advantage of the time I do have for pursuing things outside of work (and sleep).
This book will open your eyes to the amount of time you have and give you a better appreciation for how you want to send it.

boring meetings suck

9/6/2015

 
If you get one tip out of this book that makes your meetings better, it will be worth the time you spend to read it. In corporate America today, people call a lot of meetings, and it is usually not something your coworkers  look forward to. Not only will you get more efficient meetings by using the tips in this book, you’ll also be more popular with your coworkers!

Power Cues

9/6/2015

 
Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact, by Nick Morgan

I’ve been facing a highly political situation at work lately and picked up this book thinking it might help give me an idea or approach to try. What I found was a much broader book about how we each can better utilize our subconscious mind to be more efficient.

This is not the kind of book you will read and walk away with a few tips you can put into practice. It is more like going back to school. As you learn a new concept, you will need to put the book down for a period of time and put what you’ve learned into practice in your own life. Only after incorporating what you’ve learned will you be ready to pick the book back up and start working on the next lesson.

There is a lot of brain science in the book, but it is presented in a manner that doesn’t require that you have a PhD. In addition, anyone who has to communicate in their job (and who doesn’t?) can learn a lot from the last chapter: Community and Communication.

Back of the napkin

9/6/2015

 
Nearly all of us have to give presentations in the course of our job. Whether it is a project kick off, a status meeting, or an executive steering committee presentation, having a presentation that is memorable and stands out will set you apart. This book provides creative ways to present your information and gives insight into the psychology of how people process and remember your data.

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