Smarter faster better
By: Charles Duhigg
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780434023455; 9780434023462
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Mental efficiency; Performance; Motivation (Psychology); Decision making; Success; Decision Making; Intellect; Intelligence; Achievement; Motivation; PSYCHOLOGY; Social Psychology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Organizational Behavior; SELF-HELP; Personal Growth
Description: Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Motivation: re-imagining boot camp, nursing home rebellions, and the locus of control; title: Teams: psychological safety at Google and Saturday Night Live; title: Focus: cognitive tunneling, Air France flight 447, and the power of mental models; title: Goal setting: smart goals, stretch goals, and the Yom Kippur War; title: Managing others: solving a kidnapping with lean and agile thinking and a culture of trust; title: Decision making: forecasting the future (and winning at poker) with Bayesian psychology; title: Innovation: how idea brokers and creative desperation saved Disney's Frozen; title: Absorbing data: turning information into knowledge in Cincinnati's public schools.; title: Appendix: a reader's guide to using these ideas.