Robert C. Pozen has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Extreme Productivity.
Extreme Productivity
Summary
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 40 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 emails, 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.
©2012 Robert C. Pozen (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers
Remote, Inc.
Summary
You can thrive and excel when you’re working remotely, if you adopt the mindset, habits, and tech tools of professionals who are even more productive outside the office: Learn to think like a “business of one”, and that entrepreneurial mindset will transform your experience of remote work. It’s not enough to stay sane while you’re working from home: You deserve to thrive and excel. But that’s hard to do when you, your boss, or your team are still trying to replicate the way you work at the office, enduring an endless series of video calls while pretending that yes, everyone is wearing pants. Remote, Inc. shows you a new approach, based on the mindset and habits of people who flourish while working outside the office some or all of the time. These are the folks who manage to get even more done at home, even though you know they’ve got kids or dogs underfoot and somehow fit in a daily run at lunchtime. Their secret? They think like a “business of one”. That’s how productivity experts Robert C. Pozen and Alexandra Samuel describe the mindset that lets people thrive when they’re working remotely, whether working from home full-time or spending a few days each week in the office. You can follow their lead by embracing the work habits and independence of an entrepreneur - while also tapping into the benefits of collegiality and online collaboration. Remote, Inc. maps out the principles that drive this entrepreneurial approach and translates them into the specific habits and tools that make remote work productive and enjoyable. It shows you how to: Focus on goals and results instead of the nine-to-five schedule Wow your managers by treating them like valued clients Beat information overload with a system that prioritizes the most important emails and messages Make online meetings purposeful, focused, and engaging Learn to love your colleagues again by building great relationships through online collaboration Plan for success in a world in which many professionals will work remotely Just as important as making you a professional powerhouse, Remote Inc. will help you find a balance between work from home and life at home.
©2021 Robert C. Pozen and Alexandra Samuel (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers