Extreme Productivity

In 2010, The Harvard Business Review did a series of interviews with Robert Pozen on the subject of productivy. At the time, he was teaching a full course load at the Harvard Business School, working full-time as the chairman of an investment management firm, and raising a family. He's written 30 books, and during his six years at a Washington law firm, he worked so fast and so well that he was able to bill double for his hours worked.
Pozen has cracked the code of workplace productivity, and is now sharing his secrets with the rest of us. This book is for those overwhelmed by their existing workload, faced with a myriad of competing demands and multiple projects of an urgent nature, and have a calendar full of boring meetings, a schedule filled with travel, and a backlog of emails. Extreme Productivity provides the two main things you need -- an analytical framework aimed at maximizing your productivity, and the practical skills to handle workloads more productively.
Here, Pozen shows that in order to be truly productive, there must be a critical shift in mindset from hours worked to results produced. We need to stop taking pride in working late and every weekend, and instead to focus on the quality and quantity of what we have actually accomplished. He also explains how we should evaluate our own comparative advantage not just to the talents of other executives or professionals, but relative to the skill requirements of the organization that employs them. Along the way, Pozen provides the practical skills we need to be more productive, offering concrete suggestions and exercises to help maximize our time at work.