Would you like to know how you or your entire business team can become smarter, faster, and better at what you do?
Charles Duhigg, the author who brought us The Power of Habit, studied this question and wrote a book to show us methods that have been proven to work across multiple disciplines. In Smarter, Faster, Better, The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg, Random House, 2016, Duhigg explores eight key concepts that explain why some individuals and groups get more done and how they do what they do better than others. How each of the eight concepts works is explained in a variety of stories so that we can see how we might apply these concepts to our lives.
The eight key concepts to master are:
(1) Being motivated by an internal locus of control;
(2) Teams operate better when everyone has a voice and team members are sensitive to others’ feelings;
(3) Our ability to focus increases when we create mental models;
(4) Having both SMART [specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time sensitive] goals and stretch goals, but remaining flexible to deal with new information leads to better performance;
(5) A commitment culture often outperforms other types of cultures in business;
(6) Decision making improves when we teach ourselves to think of multiple possible outcomes and determine the best choice;
(7) Innovation occurs when we learn to look for ways to see old problems in new ways, and
(8) We absorb data better when we personally manipulate it.
Duhigg is an excellent story teller. Each story he shares illustrates the key concept and shows us how to apply these concepts to our daily lives.
By the end of the book, I was convinced that I, too, could learn to become smarter, faster, and better and you can too.
Rating: $$$$$ out of 5.
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