Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) [Paperback]

The importance of achieving focusgoes well beyond your own productivity. Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, find clarity amid uncertainty, and heighten your sense of professional fulfillment.

Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. This book 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

HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK.

The HBR Emotional Intelligence Seriesfeatures smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages ofHarvard 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.

A carefully curated selection of articles about achieving focus in the workplace fromHarvard Business Review.

• Highly curated collections of HBR articles.
• Presents readers research, frameworks, and inspiration they need to maintain focus in the workplace.
• Teaches readers to identify why they become distracted.
• Demonstrates how readers can foster a workplace culture that allows their team to achieve focus and perform better.

Audience: Professionals feeling distracted, pulled in too many directions, or unable to complete tasks in the workplace.

Announced first printing: 25,000
Laydown goal: 5,500

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