Managing Your Time and Commitments: Books and Resources
Thank you for participating in our Managing Your Time and Commitments keynote! You'll recall there are many books and resources mentioned and recommended during the session. Well, here's the list, including links to interviews where available.
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| Resource | Author | Comment | Link |
| Alignment Exercise | Andy Kaufman | What's really important to you? How does your life line up with those priorities? Try this Alignment Exercise to see what stands out to you as needing more focus. |  |
| Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live | Tony Schwartz | When it was first released, this book had a much more interesting title: The Way We're Working Isn't Working. Regardless, it's filled with excellent insights on improving personal productivity, including taking breaks every 90 minutes or less and getting more sleep. | |
| Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes | Tom Rath | A very practical book by one of the most successful business non-fiction writers of our time. Want to fuel your ability to be more effective? Tom tells you how to better eat, move, and sleep | |
| Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours | Robert Pozen | Very helpful book for getting your arms around your priorities, managing meetings, leading your team, managing up, and even reading, writing, and speaking. | |
| Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century | Cathy Davidson | Intriguing book on attention, learning, and how to survive in a hyper-multitasking world. Publisher’s Weekly named it one of the top 10 science books of the season it was published. For an intriguing video that underscores Cathy’s book, check out this video. | |
| 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done | Peter Bregman | Time management and leadership insights--very readable. | |
| Stickk.com | Want to achieve a goal? How about you put some money on it! | |