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What's Best Next

How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
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By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next offers a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in all areas of life. Matt Perman addresses the challenge of distinguishing true productivity from mere busyness in our information-overloaded age, grounding work in a gospel-centred perspective.

The book is filled with biblical insight and actionable advice such as creating a workable life mission statement, empowering delegation, overcoming procrastination, managing workflows efficiently, and embracing generosity as key to productivity.

This expanded edition includes new material on productivity in a fallen world and creative work, guiding readers to do not just more, but the right things that truly matter.
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This book is ideal for Christian professionals, leaders, and anyone seeking to integrate their faith with effective work practices. It suits readers interested in spirituality and practical productivity methods rooted in biblical principles.

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Unique to any other book about maximizing efficiency, What’s Best Next is a God-centered, gospel-oriented perspective that addresses the proper motivation to drive your productivity---serving others, to the glory of God. This expanded edition includes a new chapter on productivity in a fallen world and a new appendix on getting creative things done.

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By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do.

There are a lot of myths about productivity—what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information overload, it may feel harder than ever to understand the meaning of work or to have a sense of vocation or calling.

So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity?

Matt Perman has spent his career helping people learn how to do work in a gospel-centred and effective way. What's Best Next explains his approach to unlocking productivity and fulfilment in work by showing how faith relates to work, even in our everyday grind.

What's Best Next is packed with biblical and theological insight and practical counsel that you can put into practice today, such as:

  • How to create a mission statement for your life that's actually practicable.
  • How to delegate to people in a way that really empowers them.
  • How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you.
  • How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day.
  • How to have peace of mind without needing to have everything under control.
  • How generosity is actually the key to unlocking productivity.

This expanded edition includes:

  • a new chapter on productivity in a fallen world
  • a new appendix on being more productive with work that requires creative thinking.

Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done—the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. You can learn how to do work that matters and how to do it well.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780310533986

Publisher: Zondervan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 January 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Zondervan

Edition: Enlarged edition

Contributors:

  • Foreword by John Piper

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 398g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Matt Perman is the co-founder of What's Best Next, an organisation that helps empower Christians to be more productive in all areas of life, and to do so in a way that is God-centred and gospel-driven. Previously, he served as director of Marketing at Made to Flourish and was director of strategy at Desiring God for thirteen years. He is the author of What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done (Zondervan, 2014). Matt has an MDiv in biblical and theological studies from Southern Seminary and a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. Matt is a frequent speaker on the topics of leadership and productivity from a God-centred perspective and also consults with businesses and non-profits, focusing on startups devoted to solving large global problems. He blogs at www.whatsbestnext.com.

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