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Smarter faster better : the secrets of being productive in life and business / Charles Duhigg.

by Duhigg, Charles.

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Doubleday Canada, c2016.

Industrial productivity -- Psychological aspects.

Labor productivity -- Psychological aspects.

Performance -- Psychological aspects.

Goal (Psychology)

Decision making.

Self-management (Psychology)

9780385680936 (pbk.)

9780385680912 (hc.)

x, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"From the author of The Power of Habit an exploration of productivity, and why managing how you think - rather than what you think about - can transform your life. Productivity, recent studies suggest, isn't always about driving ourselves harder, working faster and pushing ourselves toward greater "efficiency." Real productivity relies on managing how we think, identify goals, construct teams and make decisions. The most productive people, companies and organizations envision the world and their choices in profoundly different ways. Eight concepts that are critical to increasing productivity. The author takes you into the cockpit of two passenger jets (one crashes) to understand the importance of constructing mental models - telling yourself stories about yourself in order to subconsciously focus on what really matters. We examine basic training in the U.S. Marine Corps, where the internal locus of control is exploited to increase self-motivation. The outbreak of Israel's Yom Kippur War demonstrates cognitive closure - a dangerous trap that stems from our natural desire to feel productive and check every last thing off our to-do lists, causing us to miss obvious risks and bigger opportunities. A high-achieving public school in Cincinnati illuminates the concept of disfluency, which holds that we learn faster and more deeply when we make the data harder to absorb. How the principles of lean manufacturing - in which decision-making power is pushed to the lowest levels of the hierarchy - allowed the FBI to produce a software system that had eluded them for years. How Disney made Frozen into a record success by encouraging tension among animation teams - a version of what biologists refer to as the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, which posits that nature is most creative when crises occur."--Provided by publisher.

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