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Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

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Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) explores the essential role of focus and attention management in personal success and well-being. This book delves into strategies for enhancing concentration, mastering mindfulness, and balancing work demands with personal time. By combining insights from renowned authors and thought leaders, it offers actionable advice to improve emotional intelligence and achieve greater productivity and fulfilment.
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You might enjoy this book if you're seeking practical insights and strategies to enhance your ability to focus and increase productivity in both your personal and professional life. It draws on research and expert opinions to help you build essential emotional intelligence skills that are crucial for staying attentive and managing distractions. This may appeal to anyone looking for guidance on improving concentration and achieving greater mental clarity.

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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 fulfillment.

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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 the cycle of distraction.

This volume includes the work of:

  • Daniel Goleman
  • Heidi Grant
  • Amy Jen Su
  • Rasmus Hougaard

HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Series: HBR Emotional Intelligence Series

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ISBN: 9781633696587

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 December 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 177.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 13 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

Author social media/website info: hbr.org

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