Focus, Harvard Business Review
Focus, Harvard Business Review
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Focus

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Mike Lenz, Carolyn Jania

Unabridged: 1 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/20/2022


Synopsis

The importance of achieving focus goes well beyond your own productivity.

Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, find clarity amid uncertainty, and heighten your sense of professional fulfillment.

Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. This book explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break the cycle of distraction.

This volume includes the work of Daniel Goleman
Heidi Grant, Amy Jen Su, and Rasmus Hougaard.

HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK.

The HBR Emotional Intelligence series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

About Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, twelve international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on March 25, 2018

Not bad, and a good starting point of framework if you're just starting to tackle the challenge of how to have (effective) difficult conversations. However, even as part of the "20 Minute Manager" series from HBR (which is usually pretty good), this only should qualify as a "10 Minute Manager" asset......more

Goodreads review by Venera on March 26, 2020

Simple, short and to the point. "... It's not about being smooth or talking a good game - It's about making it a priority to be your best self even in the most challenging situations."......more

Goodreads review by Umair on January 12, 2020

A primer on why candour is important when it comes to difficult conversations. Don't stop with this though and keep reading up on this.......more

Goodreads review by Kari on July 12, 2017

Delivers what it says it will deliver. Difficult convos are broken down to understanding them, seeing what's what, identifying the emotions, big picture perspective, effective framing, listening and responding with understanding, remaining flexible, finding things you agree on and doing it all over......more

Goodreads review by Scarletredish on September 18, 2016

Quick read that provides valuable insight on how clear communication can be a valuable asset to any group of people or in an organization.......more