Books by the Productivity
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 What To Do When There's Too Much To Do
These days, everyone is busy. Advances in technology mean there is more information to sort through than ever. Work hours have increased, but to-do lists are endless - schedules get blown in the first five minutes of the day. You could spend more time “planning” and “prioritizing” your list than actually doing the work! At work and in life, we all just have too much to do! And when you have too much to do, it’s hard to feel productive.
If you can’t do everything, you need to put your time and energy into what will yield the more important results. Laura Stack shows how to hone in on the high-value tasks, protect the time to do them, focus on their execution, and organize your life around the stuff that really matters. Her innovative, step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula (PWF) allows you to spend less time and achieve greater results than you ever thought possible. We can no longer do more with less – we can’t put in more hours or work harder than we are now – we have to work differently and do less to achieve more.
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SuperCompetent: The
Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best
The new mantra
is "buckle down!" These times are about a return to quality rather than
quantity; all of us must learn to be competent—and not simply
competent, but SuperCompetent®. In this competitive economy, just being
able to do your job is no longer enough. Competence is expected; you’ve
got to be SuperCompetent to get an edge.
Written for High Potentials in Leadership Development programs,
SuperCompetent will give you proven methods to reach your maximum
potential and achieve breakthrough results. You’ll get to your
productive best by mastering six keys to peak performance:
1. Activity: the value and importance you place on your tasks
2. Availability: your mastery of your schedule
3. Attention: the capacity to focus intently and concentrate on your
work
4. Accessibility: the ability to organize the inputs and outputs in
your life
5. Accountability: the extent to which you take personal responsibility
for your actions and outcomes
6. Attitude: your motivation, drive, and proactiveness
SuperCompetency is not about mantras but about mindsets. SuperCompetent
will transform how you think. Let Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®,
give you a clear and practical system for achieving Maximum Results in
Minimum Time®.
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SuperCompetent
Discussion Guide
As we've seen in this
comptetitive economy, you can't be simply competent; you have to be SuperCompetent®
to get an edge. In this program, you'll discover the six keys to
unlocking your full potential: Activity, Availability, Attention,
Accessibility, Accountability, and Attitude. You will
learn a clear and practical system for achieving Maximum Results in
Minimum Time®. By contrasting SuperCompetent
hero thinking with Simply Competent zero thinkin, you'll see that
transforming your performance it not about mantras but mindsets.
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The Exhaustion Cure: Up
Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days
A holistic approach to
increasing your get-up and go, from the productivity expert whose
previous books showed people how to Find More Time and leave the office
earlier®. If you want to be productive but are just too tired all the
time, you need to read this book! Laura Stack combines invaluable
insights and practical advice in this guide to becoming more energetic
and more productive in every area of life. Stack describes the factors
that contribute to low energy (the "energy bandits") and explains how
to reduce their effects and build up or renew sources of positive force
(with "energy boosters"). Focusing on simple changes that make a huge
difference, The Exhaustion Cure presents fresh, manageable ways to:
- Stop relying on caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol,
and other substances to keep you going.
- Manage your workload and concentrate at work.
- Avoid letting negative situations or people
control your thoughts and actions.
- Organize your efforts and productivity around
deeply held values and goals.
Twenty-eight percent of
Americans miss work every year because they are too exhausted to go.
The Exhaustion Cure offers everyone from overtired parents to listless
retirees sure-fire, easy-to-implement solutions.
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Leave the Office
Earlier®: The Productivity Pro® Shows You How to Do More in Less
Time...and Feel Great About It
Long hours. Juggling family
and work. Deadlines. High stress levels. Today's professionals are
feeling more overworked and overwhelmed than ever before. Yet you CAN
get more done than you ever thought possible-and still get home to your
real life sooner. Laura Stack, "The Productivity Pro,"® shows you how.
leave the office earlier® explores the ten key factors that improve
results, lower stress, and save time in today's workplace. Fun,
interactive quizzes speed you to exactly the advice and techniques you
need the most. You can tailor this information-loaded book to your own
needs by focusing on your problem areas-such as time-wasters,
distractions, email overload, or poor organization-and by following the
easy-to-implement solutions. With Laura Stack's help, you'll work more
efficiently and be more productive in every area of your life, so that
you can really live according to your priorities. Don't just work
faster. Work better, reduce stress, and leave the office earlier®!
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Find
More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel
Great About It
You have a sink full of
dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, 17 bills to pay, 26
emails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you'd love to
read, and zero minutes of free time. You can't add more hours to the
day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, will help you make the
most of the time you have and get things done. This book picks up where
Laura's bestselling book leave the office earlier® leaves off: life
after work. Now that you're more productive during your workday, this
complementary book teaches you how to get things done at home, rather
than feeling that you never have enough time. Laura Stack shows you how
to make every area of your life strong. Whether you need help on just a
few things or your life is totally out of control, Find More Time will
help you organize your space, time, chores, projects, paper, bills,
children, errands, and information to reduce your stress and create a
productive home environment, so you'll have more time to enjoy your
life. This book identifies eight pillars of personal productivity that
support successful, productive lives. Each pillar is a chapter, and the
first letter of each factor starts with the letter "P": Plans,
Priorities, Personality, Pests, Possessions, Paper, Post, and Play.
Readers determine their own Productivity Quotient (PQ)™ by answering
ten questions per factor, resulting in a cumulative score out of 400
possible points. Find More Time today!
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Chicken
Soup for the Father & Daughter Soul
Featuring "The Camping
Trip," a story written by Laura Stack about her father. From the first
time a daughter grasps dads hand and says her first words, to the day
she moves out on her own, the bond between a father and daughter is
ever evolving: dad goes from child-hood hero, feared inspector of
boyfriends, to the sage friend of adulthood. Daughters mature from
perfect little angels into rebellious teens to accomplished women who
are dad's pride and joy. Chicken Soup for the Father and Daughter Soul
celebrates this wonderful relationship with stories about childhood,
the trying years of adolescence, the poignancy of leaving home and even
the years when daughters often become caregivers. Every story in this
special volume is sure to evoke the fondest of memories and rekindle
the bond between dads and their little girls.
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