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From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.
Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations--a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the "hyperactive hive mind" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth. Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable. Humans are simply not wired for constant digital communication.
We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it. In
Product details
Publisher : Portfolio (March 2 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0525536558
ISBN-13 : 978-0525536550
Item weight : 408 g
Dimensions : 14.48 x 2.77 x 21.62 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #80,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#2 in Email Administration
#64 in Manager's Guides to Computing
#157 in Presentation Skills (Books)
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