Focus

HBR Emotional Intelligence Series

By: Harvard Business Review

Narrated by: Carolyn Jania, Mike Lenz

The importance of achieving focus goes well beyond your own productivity.

Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, find clarity amid uncertainty, and heighten your sense of professional fulfillment.

Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. This book explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break the cycle of distraction.

This volume includes the work of Daniel Goleman

Heidi Grant, Amy Jen Su, and Rasmus Hougaard.

HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK.

The HBR Emotional Intelligence series features smart, essential content on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

©2019 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation (P)2022 Ascent Audio

Great pearls in this book

I am going to try the techniques in this book. I think it is useful to stay focused.

Note to self technique: think where you will be 5 years from now if everything will work out perfectly as you plan :)

Perfect refresher

For those seeking to refresh important concepts and practices to improve focus on work. That’s a must read.