title: Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
author:  Robert C. Pozen 
description: Academic and former executive Pozen offers his set of recommendations on productivity, urging us to adopt a proper mind-set, to focus on the results we seek rather than the hours we work. He defines personal productivity as the quantity and quality of your results in achieving your own objectives. Presented in five parts, his advice and takeaway lessons include setting goals with specific priorities, focusing on final results, not sweating the small stuff, organizing your daily routine, improving reading comprehension, writing and speaking effectiveness, and long-term career decisions. His ideas are for all types of professionals, and he suggests action for certain stages of their careers. His insights on traveling effectively, embracing change, and balancing home and work are particularly valuable. He concludes, Regardless of your employers culture, you can adopt most of the specific techniques in this book. . . . Ultimately, it is within your power to boost your results and reduce your working hours. An excellent how-to on personal productivity. --Mary Whaley
zlib_text: The why and how
  of working time reduction
  —
  Stan De Spiegelaere and Agnieszka Piasna
  
  The why and how
  of working time reduction
  —
  Stan De Spiegelaere and Agnieszka Piasna
  
  Abstract
  After decades of incremental reduction in working time, recent years have shown signs of a 
  reversed evolution. In response, the labour movement has reasserted its historic aim gradually to 
  reduce working time. This guide aims to contribute to this debate by discussing why working time 
  reduction can be desirable and how it can be organised. It is obvious that the effectiveness of 
  working time reduction depends on how it is implemented. The many options are discussed using 
  real-life experiments to illustrate their effectiveness. The review of the motivations behind working 
  time reduction, the various ways of implementing it and an examination of five short case studies 
  provide the groundwork for a much-needed discussion on how best to design a future-proof 
  reduction in working time. 
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