The procrastination equation how to stop putting things off and start getting things done

Dr. Piers Steel is an internationally recognised expert on human motivation and the foremost authority on why people put things off. A professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business, he's spent the last ten years studying...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steel, Piers
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Harlow Pearson 2012
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Portrait of a procrastinator
  • The procrastination equation : the result of eight hundred studies plus one
  • Wired for procrastination : putting off is human nature
  • Procrastinations : how modern life ensures distraction
  • The personal price of procrastination : what we miss, what we lose and what we suffer
  • The economic cost of procrastination : how businesses and nations lose
  • Optimising optimism : balancing under- and over-confidence
  • Love it or leave it : finding relevance in work
  • In good time : managing short-term impulses and long-term goals
  • Making it work : putting the pieces into practice
  • The procrastination equation : a step-by-step guide to getting stuff done