Productivity topics

Contains a curated list of productivity tips, techniques and hacks.

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How is productivity calculated?

• Calculating labour productivity
• 360-degree feedback
• Online performance tracking

Productivity vs Efficiency

• Use planners to boost productivity
• Create block schedules to eliminate distractions
• Leverage voice-to-text to simplify your day
• Listen to music to create calm
• Consider monotasking to drive efficiency
• Focus on important tasks to strengthen production
• Set goals to get ahead
• Prevent burnout
  • Creating clear boundaries
  • Organizing job roles
  • Taking extended vacations when possible
• Avoid productivity killers
• Declutter your desk
• Take practical steps to increase productivity

Main Groups for Productivity Topics

• • Self-Management and Mental Well-being
• Dream Job searching (see Career Development)
• Techniques
  • Concentration
  • Creative Thinking (see Personal Development)
  • Mindset adjustment in attitude with customer (see Career Development)
  • Motivation Drivers

1. Self-Management
   • Stephen Covey’s "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" .
   • Mindset and Attitude topics reflect Carol Dweck’s "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success".
2. Personal Development:
   • Personal Skills
     • David Allen’s "Getting Things Done" for task management and focus.
     • Creative Thinking and Learning are influenced by Edward de Bono’s work on lateral thinking and lifelong learning principles.
3. Interpersonal Development: - Dale Carnegie’s "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and other communication-focused literature. - Networking Keith Ferrazzi in "Never Eat Alone".
4. Career and Professional Development:
   • Richard Bolles in "What Color Is Your Parachute?" (job search and career planning).
   • Leadership principles draw from books like John Maxwell’s "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership".
5. Productivity Techniques:
   • This reflects the ideas in "The Power of Full Engagement" by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz.
   • Mindfulness and Relaxation Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work on mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Pesimist/Optimist embracing other side

Book Summary: Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy | Sam Thomas Davies

Key books & sources

Core titles referenced across the notes (by theme). See each note’s References or Resources for links and details.

Theme	Books / sources
Self-management & habits	Covey — The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; Dweck — Mindset; Duhigg — The Power of Habit; Clear — Atomic Habits; Loehr & Schwartz — The Power of Full Engagement; Kabat-Zinn — mindfulness (MBSR).
Productivity & focus	Allen — Getting Things Done; Newport — Deep Work, Digital Minimalism; Tracy — Eat That Frog!; Keller — The One Thing; Csikszentmihalyi — Flow.
Goals & priorities	Doerr — Measure What Matters (OKRs); McKeown — Essentialism.
Interpersonal & communication	Carnegie — How to Win Friends and Influence People; Ferrazzi — Never Eat Alone; Fisher & Ury — Getting to Yes; Patterson et al. — Crucial Conversations; Rosenberg — Nonviolent Communication; Scott — Radical Candor.
Career & leadership	Bolles — What Color Is Your Parachute?; Maxwell — The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership; Sinek — Start with Why; Cain — Quiet (introverts at work).
Thinking & decisions	de Bono — Six Thinking Hats, lateral thinking; Munger — mental models; Kahneman — Thinking, Fast and Slow (bias); Heath & Heath — Made to Stick (ideas that stick).

Keys Success Factors

1. learn to speak with various persona
2. have time to prepare myself
3. listening in people needs
4. be eager on finding alternatives
5. give & get