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The Productivity Project

Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy

Chris Bailey

Crown, 2016

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Productivity expert Chris Bailey has delved into this specialty for his whole career. After college, he took a year off to research productivity and to conduct carefully controlled and monitored productivity experiments. After that, Bailey spent ten years investigating “thousands of productivity hacks” to determine what people can do to increase their productivity and become consistently more productive. Bailey used that decade of experimentation to identify 25 effective productivity techniques. To get the most from your time and effort, getAbstract recommends checking out his insights and methods.

Take-Aways

Every person gets the same amount of time each day. To make your time more valuable, increase your productivity.
Productivity requires managing your “time, attention and energy.”
Productivity doesn’t mean being constantly busy; it means accomplishing your goals.

About the Author

Chris Bailey is an author and productivity consultant. During his year-long productivity project, he wrote more than 216,000 words (864 pages) about productivity in his blog, A Year of Productivity.

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D. M. 2 years ago

I read this book after reading the summary - it is really a "best of" collection, curated and interpreted so well by Chris Bailey. Very impressed!
P. p. 3 years ago

Picked up some useful tips to apply immediately from the book. This is a must-read for everyone.
O. B. 3 years ago

The summary of productivity project is very insightful and impactful to me.

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