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Make Time | Book Series

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Overview:

What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention?

As creators of Google Ventures’ renowned ‘design sprint’, Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products like Gmail and YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own personal habits and routines, looking for ways to help individuals optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they’ve packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days.

Making time isn’t about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it’s about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction. Make Time is a must-read for anyone who has ever thought ‘if only there were more hours in the day…’

Authors:

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

Published In:

27 September 2018

 

The Great Game of Business | Book Series

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Overview:

In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing  Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a  near bankrupt division of International Harvester. That’s when a green young manager, Jack Stack,  took over and turned it around. He didn’t know how to “manage” a company, but he did know about the  principal, of athletic competition and democracy: keeping score, having fun, playing fair, providing choice, and having a voice. With these principals  he created his own style of management — open-book management. The key is to let everyone in on financial decisions. At SRC, everyone learns how to read a P&L — even those without a high school  education know how much the toilet paper they use cuts into profits. SRC people have a piece of the action and a vote in company matters. Imagine having a vote on your bonus and on what businesses the  company should be in. SRC restored the dignity of economic freedom to its people. Stack’s “open-book management” is the key — a system which, as he describes it here, is literally a game, and one so simple anyone can use  it. As part of the Currency paperback line, the  book includes a “User’s Guide” — an introduction and discussion guide created for the  paperback by the author — to help readers make practical use of the book’s ideas. Jack Stack is the  president and CEO of the Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, in Springfield, Missouri. The recipient  of the 1993 Business Enterprise Trust Award, Jack speaks throughout the country on The  Great Game Of Business and Open  Book Management.

Authors:

Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham

Published In:

16 July 2013