The Procrastination Equation - Piers Steel

The Procrastination Equation

How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done

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Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
2010
Prentice Hall Life (Verlag)
978-0-273-72326-4 (ISBN)
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Procrastination or at least lack of motivation is endemic. A massive 95% of us admit to procrastinating. For 20% of us the problem is chronic and it affects our health and wealth, success and happiness. And the problem is getting worse rates have quadrupled since the 1970s.

We all recognise it, we all want to understand it and to have a breakthrough moment that helps us be more productive, less guilty and ultimately happier.

Scientifically rigorous, hugely entertaining, compelling and readable, this book will solve your problems of procrastination and get you motivated to live the life you want. Based on 10 years of award winning scientific research and written by the foremost scientist in the field, this book contains new techniques for dealing with the problem. There are still scientifically proven techniques for controlling and improving motivation that have not yet been tapped and translated into accessible terms this is the book that does it for the first time.

Dr. Piers Steel is an internationally recognised expert on human motivation and the foremost authority on why people put things off. A professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business, he's spent the last ten years studying procrastination and the decades before that embodying it

Author's Note

1 Portrait of a Procrastinator

2 The Procrastination Equation: The result of eight hundred studies plus one

3 Wired for Procrastination: Putting off is human nature

4 ProcrastiNations: How modern life ensures distraction

5 The Personal Price of Procrastination: What we miss, what we lose and what we suffer

6 The Economic Cost of Procrastination: How businesses and nations lose

7 Optimizing Optimism: Balancing under- and over-confidence

8 Love It or Leave It: Finding relevance in work

9 In Good Time: Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals

10 Making It Work: Putting the pieces into practice

Postscript: Procrastination's Chapter 11

Acknowledgments

Endnotes

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.12.2010
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 162 mm
Gewicht 414 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Bewerbung / Karriere
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 0-273-72326-X / 027372326X
ISBN-13 978-0-273-72326-4 / 9780273723264
Zustand Neuware
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