Work Productivity

Whether the pandemic has permanently altered your working arrangements and you're not dealing well with the new setup, or you work from home running a business and are struggling to find a good balance of work and ‘me time’, this book will help.

In recent years, remote work has become increasingly popular. With the global pandemic in 2020, many companies and employees were forced to quickly adapt to working from home. Working from home has numerous advantages, including greater flexibility, no commuting, and more control over your environment. However, it also presents some unique challenges. This audiobook is packed with practical tips and actionable advice for staying focused, motivated, and successful while working from home

Listen for an incredibly practical, action-oriented recipe to build your thriving workplace culture. In this book you'll learn how workforce well-being, culture, and worker engagement are inseparable from these other more traditional business concerns. Happiness means creativity, productivity, effectiveness, and profitability. Happiness means business!

Are you overwhelmed by a cluttered workspace and a scattered mind? In Clear Desk, Clear Mind, Hayden Crosswell offers a transformative guide to reclaiming your focus, energy, and confidence through the art of decluttering. This book provides practical strategies to organize your physical and digital spaces, manage your time effectively, and foster a calm, productive work environment. Inside, you’ll discover: Step-by-step methods to declutter your workspace Techniques to enhance mental clarity and reduce stress Time management tips to boost productivity Mindfulness practices for sustained ...

COVID Edition By Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute The future of work is not a binary choice between doomsday or utopia. It’s a path we shape—together. Will robots take all the jobs? Will automation free us for lives of creativity and leisure—or trap us in a dystopia of mass unemployment and government dependence? In Jobs for Robots, top-ranked futurist and economist Jason Schenker cuts through the noise, hype, and fear to deliver a powerful, data-driven guide to what automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work. Updated to ...

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute Welcome to the Automation Age. What happens when supply chains break, labor markets tighten, and inflation surges—all at once? You automate. The Robot and Automation Almanac – 2022 is your front-row seat to the future of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence. In this fifth volume of the acclaimed almanac series, top experts from Microsoft, Honeywell, iTRACE Technologies, MHI, Hyster, The Futurist Institute, and more come together to forecast the trends, technologies, and transformations shaping business, education,...

Email is an incredibly powerful and essential tool for doing our daily work, but it has become a near-constant source of frustration, anxiety, and distraction from our work. We have reached a tipping point where "email overload" is no longer a unique problem - it is everyone's problem. So how can we solve it? With Unsubscribe, Jocelyn K. Glei shows listeners how to repair their relationship with email, transforming it from a constant source of distraction into a productive tool again.

Bill Butterworth will make you laugh -- and learn while you're doing it! In the opening chapter of this powerful audiobook, Bill shares how, while running in a nightmarish 440-yard dash with his rotund body, he learned a great lesson: life is much more like a marathon than a sprint.

O mundo vem sofrendo um processo de mudança contínuo cada vez mais acelerado. Para quem acredita que deve haver uma maneira mais eficiente de fazer as coisas, Scrum é um livro instigante sobre o processo de liderança e gestão que está transformando a maneira como vivemos. É por causa dele que a Amazon pode acrescaentar um novo recurso em seu site todos os dias, que o Red River Army Depot, no Texas, consegue lançar utilitários blindados 39 vezes mais rápido e que o FBI finalmente criou um enorme banco de dados de rastreamento de terroristas.

How do business owners extinguish burnout, regain control, and create an intolerance for unconscionable overtime hours? What if you could make that change by tomorrow? In The 3.3 Rule, John Briggs shows how to fix the demand for nonstop work for business owners and their team. Not the demand from having clients, but the demand from self that pushes the nonstop work.

Wasting time in pointless meetings is the one thing that never seems to change. Martin Murphy, however, has helped a who's who of corporate clients transform time-sapping meetings into breakthrough sessions that are measurably productive. His strategy is not simply to make meetings more palatable; instead he reframes the entire concept of collaboration and introduces four "Work Sessions" that replace meetings to get more done faster than ever before.

Are you exhausted—but still pushing through? Do you feel like no amount of rest ever refills your tank? You might not just be tired. You might be burned out. Beyond Burnout is a no-fluff, science-driven guide for high performers, caregivers, professionals, and anyone quietly drowning under the weight of chronic stress. Drawing on evidence-based methods from physiology, psychology, and productivity science, this book breaks down what burnout actually is, how to spot it before collapse, and how to systematically recover—without needing to quit your life or move to a cabin in the woods. ...

Clearer Prompts. Smarter Output. Better Results. If you've ever typed a prompt into ChatGPT and thought, “This could be better,” this guide is for you. The Mindful Prompts Toolkit is a hands-on, no-fluff playbook for professionals who want to stop guessing and start getting results from AI. Whether you're writing content, analyzing data, planning strategy, or just trying to get a clean answer, this guide shows you how to prompt with clarity and control. No gimmicks. No filler. Just proven methods that work in the real world. Inside, you'll get: 20+ high-impact prompts for everyday ...

Are You Chasing Too Many Things and Getting Nowhere? What if just two things could unlock your greatest success? Are you ready to simplify, focus, and finally build the life and business you dream of? In a noisy world obsessed with doing more, Just Two Things to Make It Happen dares to offer a radical approach to success; and let everything else fall into place. This isn’t another book full of vague motivation or endless to-do lists. This is a sharp, practical blueprint for high-achievers, dreamers, solopreneurs, creators, and anyone tired of running in circles. With real-world case ...

This book is your hands-on guide to understanding, designing, and deploying AI agents that do more than chat — they act. Whether you're a beginner or a technical professional, you'll explore how intelligent agents are automating real-world tasks across industries like customer support, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, education, and software development. Inside, you'll learn: What AI agents are and how they work Key tools like LangChain, Flowise, and Make.com Real use cases with workflows, tools, and diagrams How to build agents with or without code What’s coming next in autonomous ...

Unlock your potential with "Success Habits That Work," the ultimate success book for those who want to transform their lives. Dive into proven techniques that fuel personal growth, enhance productivity, and help you achieve your goals. Packed with practical advice and engaging stories, this book on success will guide you in setting clear goals, cultivating a success mindset, and mastering time management.

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and create the life you’ve always dreamed of? Maximize Your Potential is your ultimate guide to mastering self-improvement and productivity. Whether you’re striving for personal growth, professional success, or simply looking to become more efficient in your everyday life, this book is packed with actionable strategies to help you reach your goals and thrive. In this motivational and practical guide, you’ll discover: The Power of Daily Habits: Learn how small, consistent actions lead to massive long-term success. Time and Energy Management: ...

Find out how to get organized, navigate technologies like portable communication devices and e-mail, run a no-nonsense meeting, juggle all the players in the new global business environment, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. We all struggle to balance work life and personal life; this audiobook will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing time for you to fulfill your other duties as a parent, a spouse, or a friend.

It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell argue that our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, and — ironically — less innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, The Innovation Delusion shows how the ideology of change for its own sake has proved a disaster.

Reclaim your time and energy! Discover no-nonsense, sustainable, actionable strategies to boost productivity, ditch burnout, and reach your goals as an individual contributor, team, or leader. In today’s fast-paced, “always on” business environment, many organizations struggle with disengaged employees, stressed-out managers, and talented executives who keep one eye on the door. But you can flip that script! These issues can be transformed into opportunities for growth and organizational success.