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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 MINUTES clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.

Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us.

Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies, Bregman sprinkles his charming audio book with pathways which help guide us -- pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or less.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 28, 2011
ISBN9781611139556
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    There are many books in this general category (i.e., How to Transform Your Life to Get Things Done, etc.). It's hard for me to find many things that aren't already out there -- David Allen's Getting Things Done is a good example, and is even quoted in the book. I've read enough of these titles that I wish I had just read a summary of this one -- there are a couple of gems in the later chapters worth finding, but the rest seemed to be a fresh packaging over material I've already seen.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book got me thinking about who I am and what I want to accomplish this year and in my life.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    A 'cloying' book for me. Maybe you do like it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Pretty good,lots of good points and Aha moments,really makes you contemplate a lot of things.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I saw him speak at AASL in the fall. I find his ideas compelling and helpful.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Not the typical time management book. Written with a story telling focus in short chapters. Nicely organized around annual focus, daily plans, and ideas for distractions from yourself and others.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I normally avoid self-help books, except when they are short, cheap and may have a nugget or two to help me get organized. This was all three - although I'm not sure I can implement any of the suggestions without flash-cards pinned to my wall.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I hesitated in my choice of star rating for this book. I would say I personally got 10 stars of value out of it. However, for a book about finding one's focus it didn't half go on. It felt to me that the information conveyed in 253 pages could have been easily, and perhaps more usefully, condensed into half this number. It's all very folksy. If you are the sort of person who likes to have five examples illustrating the same point so you can get there yourself, then you will love this. Me, I just like to be told the point.

    Having said this, I did find it to be the most useful of all the time management books/systems I've ever read about. Just reading some chapters made me feel more organised.

    I'd definitely look for more of what Peter Bregman has to offer.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book starts slow but revs up in the middle and finishes with a bang. I have read about many of the subjects Peter Bregman covers otherwise I would probably have liked it even more (since the ideas would seem revolutionary)... Bregman does a great job tying together ideas of social economics, strengths & weaknesses positive psychology and productivity in a way that I have never seen done. The ideas are backed by scientific studies and he resummarizes the information tying it into the next concept in a way that makes all the information easier to remember.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book starts slow but revs up in the middle and finishes with a bang. I have read about many of the subjects Peter Bregman covers otherwise I would probably have liked it even more (since the ideas would seem revolutionary)... Bregman does a great job tying together ideas of social economics, strengths & weaknesses positive psychology and productivity in a way that I have never seen done. The ideas are backed by scientific studies and he resummarizes the information tying it into the next concept in a way that makes all the information easier to remember.