18 Minutes
Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
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3.9 • 162 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 Minutes clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.
Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us.
Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies, Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide us --pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or less.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bregman has taken the advice from his popular Harvard Business Review columns and turned it into a book for people who feel that they don't have enough hours in the day to do what they need to do. He offers straightforward advice: focus your priorities at the annual, daily, and moment-to-moment level; determine your goals; eliminate distractions that don't let you achieve those goals; and be firm regarding your boundaries. While the reader has no doubt heard this advice from other self-help books, Bregman's anecdotes are helpful and funny, his advice is sound, and his points are easy to grasp. Hopefully readers will find what he has to say useful and not just a retread of things they already know multitasking is a myth, take time to refocus throughout the day, motivate your employees with fun from other sources.
Customer Reviews
Practical, immediately useful strategies for productivity
This is a great book, filled with useful strategies for greater productivity and for a more balanced life. One of the best books of this kind I have read in years. Filled with great personal stories too.
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Well done!!!
Bergman has done an outstanding job of combining story telling and teaching a lesson in every chapter of this book. My wife is not a reader and there were a few instances where I almost forced her to listen to a chapter or two. At the en of every chapter, she would say, "that's a good chapter". Thank you for writing this book and making an impact on people's life. It a job well done!!!
18 Minutes is awesome!!
I have read many books in my life. I have followed Covey, Maxwell, Jeffery Fox, Gladwell, Zig Ziglar and many others. I can honestly say that the author has really hit home with a plethora of things I can modify in my daily life to be better at career and personal life both. Thanks Peter for a great book. Looking forward to more!!