Smarter faster better : the secrets of productivity in life and business
by Duhigg, Charles (Author)
Summary
Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples. Full description
- Motivation: re-imagining boot camp, nursing home rebellions, and the locus of control
- Teams: psychological safety at Google and Saturday Night Live
- Focus: cognitive tunneling, Air France flight 447, and the power of mental models
- Goal setting: smart goals, stretch goals, and the Yom Kippur War
- Managing others: solving a kidnapping with lean and agile thinking and a culture of trust
- Decision making: forecasting the future (and winning at poker) with Bayesian psychology
- Innovation: how idea brokers and creative desperation saved Disney's Frozen
- Absorbing data: turning information into knowledge in Cincinnati's public schools.
- Appendix: a reader's guide to using these ideas.