Peter Bregman

Four Seconds (eBook, ePUB)

All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

All too often our best efforts to accomplish the things we want mostto do our jobs well, to make meaningful contributions at home and at work, to have satisfying relationships with loved ones, friends, neighbors, and coworkersare built on bad habits that sabotage us. We feel overwhelmed by our increasingly large to-do list, so we automatically multitask to get more doneand end up more stressed and more overloaded. We say something with the hopes of impressing the other person, but instead of end themthen spend days trying to repair the damage. We give what we think is a pep talk to our team but they walk away demotivated.

How can we be most effective and productive in a world that moves too fast and demands so much of us?

In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows that the answer is to pause for as few as four secondsthe length of a deep breathto replace bad habits and reactions with more productive behaviors. In his trademark style of blending personal anecdotes with practical advice, Bregman reveals some of our most common counter-productive tendencies and describes counter-intuitive strategies for acting more intentionally, including:

• Why setting goals can actually harm your performance
• How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower
• Why listeningnot arguingis the best strategy for changing someone's mind
• How taking responsibility for someone else's failure can actually help you succeed

Drawn from Bregman's hugely popular Harvard Business Review blog, this engaging and wise book provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062372437
• Artikelnr.: 42373204

Autorenporträt

Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, a firm that advises, coaches, and trains leaders at all levels to take powerful and ambitious actions to achieve the things that are most important to them and their organizations. He is the author of 18 Minutes (a Wall Street Journal bestseller) and Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change, and the contributor to five other books. He is a regular contributor to HBR.org, NPR, Psychology Today, Forbes, Fast Company, and other media outlets, and he is a weekly commentator on FOX Business News. He lives in New York City.