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Smarter Faster Better

The Transformative Power of Real Productivity

March 7, 2017 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780385680936
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Description

From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit comes a fascinating new book exploring the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing how you think--rather than what you think about--can transform your life.
Productivity, recent studies suggest, isn't always about driving ourselves harder, working faster and pushing ourselves toward greater "efficiency." Rather, real productivity relies on managing how we think, identify goals, construct teams and make decisions. The most productive people, companies and organizations don't merely act differently--they envision the world and their choices in profoundly different ways.
     This book explores eight concepts that are critical to increasing productivity. It takes you into the cockpit of two passenger jets (one crashes) to understand the importance of constructing mental models--telling yourself stories about yourself in order to subconsciously focus on what really matters. It introduces us to basic training in the U.S. Marine Corps, where the internal locus of control is exploited to increase self-motivation. It chronicles the outbreak of Israel's Yom Kippur War to examine cognitive closure--a dangerous trap that stems from our natural desire to feel productive and check every last thing off our to-do lists, causing us to miss obvious risks and bigger opportunities. It uses a high-achieving public school in Cincinnati to illuminate the concept of disfluency, which holds that we learn faster and more deeply when we make the data harder to absorb. It shows how the principles of lean manufacturing--in which decision-making power is pushed to the lowest levels of the hierarchy--allowed the FBI to produce a software system that had eluded them for years. It explores how Disney made Frozen into a record success by encouraging tension among animation teams--a version of what biologists refer to as the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, which posits that nature is most creative when crises occur. With the combination of relentless curiosity, deep reporting and rich storytelling that defined The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg takes readers from neurology laboratories to Google's brainstorming sessions and illustrates how we can all increase productivity in our lives.

About this Author

CHARLES DUHIGG is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine and other publications, and is the host of the podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg.

ISBN: 9780385680936
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2017-03-07

Reviews

National Bestseller
A New York Times Bestseller

"I enjoyed every minute reading this Gladwellian book. . . . [Duhigg] has become smarter, faster, better. And you can, too, along with enjoying the smoothly written, intellectually stimulating account of his journey into productivity land." --The Globe and Mail

"Engagingly written, solidly reported, thought-provoking and worth a read." --The Washington Post 

"Charles Duhigg is the master of the life-hack." --GQ

"Duhigg combines the latest research in productivity and effectiveness to explain how to become 'better' at work. Not only does Duhigg combine cutting-edge productivity and the neuroscience of how we learn, but he does it with incredibly engaging stories that make it a fun summer read as well." --Forbes

"Not only will Smarter Faster Better make you more efficient if you heed its tips, it will also save you the effort of reading many productivity books dedicated to the ideas inside. . . . His writing is smart, measured and fun." --Bloomberg Businessweek

"Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Duhigg's latest book is a jaw-droppingly well-sourced series of rules and tips assembled from a range of case studies in productivity best practices." --Fortune

"Mr. Duhigg is an effective storyteller with a knack for combining social science, fastidious reporting and entertaining anecdotes." --The Economist

"Cleverly written, and in a detective-story style. . . . Smarter Faster Better is a book for this economy, the information economy." --The New Yorker

"[Smarter Faster Better] covers a lot of ground through meticulous reporting and deft analysis." --The Wall Street Journal

"Duhigg is a terrific storyteller, and a master of the cliffhanger. . . . I never felt like putting [Smarter Faster Better] down." --Financial Times (UK)

"Revealing [and] brightly written. . . . Each chapter offers a remarkable blend of anecdotes and science illustrating concepts that clearly have much to offer individuals and companies striving for greater productivity. . . . Highly informative and entertaining." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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