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Featured Productivity & Performance Books
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Karl Pillemer
How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.
Ben Carlson
Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.
Angela Duckworth
The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2016.
Alistair Croll
Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.
New Productivity & Performance Books
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Tim Ferriss
The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. Mariner Books, 2016.
Blake Masters
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.
Admiral William H. McRaven
Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Josephy Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Way to Success, 2019.
Simon Sinek
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.
Justin Lee
How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.
Christopher J. Miller
We are Designed to Create. 2020.
Nicole LePera
Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self. Harper Wave, 2021.
Julie Bogart
A Parent’s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age. TarcherPerigee, 2022.
Most Popular Productivity & Performance Books
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Jia Jiang
How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible. Harmony, 2015.
Caroline Webb
Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life. Crown Business, 2016.
Dale Carnegie
Simon & Schuster, 1981 (revised by Dorothy Carnegie, originally published in 1936).
Tanya Dalton
Live More by Doing Less. Thomas Nelson, 2019.
Howard Schultz
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. Hachette Books, 1999
Dan Harris
A 10% Happier How-to Book. Harmony, 2017.
Will Storr
Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better. Collins, 2019.
Tom Griffiths
The Computer Science of Human Decisions. Henry Holt, 2016.
Peter F. Drucker
The Effective Executive. HarperCollins, 2002.
Trending Productivity & Performance Books This Week
Trending Productivity & Performance book summaries readers are exploring this week.
Brendan Buhler
The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
Alexander Osterwalder, et al.
How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.
Ben Carlson
Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.
Jessica Bennett
An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave, 2016.
Angela Duckworth
The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2016.
Susan Forward
When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You. HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
Benjamin Yoskovitz
Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.
Jason Fried
The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.
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The Joy of Missing Out
Tanya Dalton
A guide to clarifying what is important to you, prioritizing your time, and simplifying your tasks, in order to overcome stress and boost productivity in your life.
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