Heidi Grant

Push through when procrastination calls. Some days you're on fire at work; other days you're burned out and easily distracted. How can you maintain your drive, make consistent progress, and expend your energy wisely? This book will help you identify what's behind your flagging engagement and productivity—and provide expert research and advice on what to do about it. This volume...

The importance of achieving deep focus goes beyond your own productivity. Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, harness your emotions, and find greater workplace fulfilment. Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. Focus explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on High Performance is a curated collection of 10 HBR magazine articles focused on helping you perform at your highest level and achieve remarkable results. We've read everything HBR has ever published on high performance so you don't have to. This collection curates the best and most influential HBR articles on the topic. The articles cover...

Set ambitious goals and achieve them. If you read nothing else on high performance, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you build on your strengths, assemble a network that supports your development, and achieve extraordinary results. This book will inspire you to: Activate your leadership mindset Cultivate...

Don't let your own needs fall by the wayside—have you taken time for yourself today? Take the kids to school and get to work by nine o'clock. Plan your child's birthday party while eating lunch. Reschedule your dentist appointment. Draft a report for your boss, then rush to pick up your children and start the nighttime routine. Send a few...

Overworked? Overwhelmed? Protect yourself from burnout. The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for our jobs, we're often asked to manage tasks that don't lead to career growth or promotions. At work and at home, we're charged with countless forms of invisible labour that sap our time and energy. We usually rise...

We all need help—especially in today's uber-collaborative workplaces. Here's the good news: humans are naturally wired to want to help each other. Now here's the bad: asking for help makes most of us wildly uncomfortable. As a result, we do a poor job of calling in the reinforcements we need, leaving confused or even offended colleagues in our wake. This...

Is your message getting through? The right communication tactics can motivate your people—and fuel your business. Get more of the ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you get your message across—whether you're...