Magdalena Bak-Maier - Get Productive!: Boosting Your Productivity and Getting Things Done

Get Productive! by Magdalena Bak-Maier is far from a time management book. Instead, the book focuses on you and your capacity to get and enjoy the results you really care about. Through original exercises, insightful examples and provocative ideas, this book will help you achieve the balance and results you want.

Steven DSouza, Executive Fellow, IE Business School, Author of Brilliant Networking, www.brilliantnetworking.net

This is the most practical book on productivity I have ever read. The thing I love most about it is the fact you dont have to read it from the first until the last page to get the help you need. This book has a perfect set of exercises you can take at any point in your life to get organized, be more productive and generally get more out of your life. As a leader of a global organization, I wish Id been able to read this book at the start of my term and run those exercises with my team to get the most out of each individual. No matter what you do, where you work or how old you are, I recommend this book for reading and exercising your productivity.

Tetiana Mykhailiuk, President of AIESEC International, www.aiesec.org

A brilliantly practical step-by-step handbook for ultimate productivity. This book will boost your energy and time a hundred fold. A must-read for all those who want to live and work smarter, not harder.

Suzy Greaves, author of Making The Big Leap and named as a top ten guru to change your life around by The Daily Mail

Get Productive! is an excellent practical book that lives up to its stated objectives, namely how to become more productive within a holistic framework. By considering productivity in its many forms, the reader is given relevant exercises and understanding to develop the skills required to lead a more fulfilling and productive life whether personal or professional.

Gladeana McMahon, FAC, FBCAP, FISMA, FRSA UK Chair Association for Coaching

In her book, Get Productive! , Magdalena Bak-Maier has assembled over 30 techniques for improving an individuals effectiveness that really work! She has used her background in neuroscience combined with her career experience as a consultant and coach to significant effect and will help readers gain valuable productivity insights. The producer and eggs; diamonds, gold and lead; goal clarifying; assumptions in conversations; the action funnel; bursts and lags are some of my favourite. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

Peter Childs, FRSA, FIMechE, FASME, PhD, BSc, CEng Professorial Lead in Engineering Design and Innovation Design Engineering Joint Course Director Imperial College London, Royal College of Art

Packed with simple, effective and easy to use tips, this is a book with the power to change the bad habits of a lifetime! So much more than good time management, Get Productive! will create powerful awareness through easy exercises and coach you to uncover your blocks. A small investment in time will see you acting immediately towards positive changes. The tips and tools can be easily transferred to support team performance, ensuring they focus on value-adding activities and maximise their impact on internal and external stakeholders.

There are lessons for life as well as work; encouraging and empowering us to focus on our WANTs over the MUSTs and effectively matching tasks to energy levels. We all have energy drainers in our lives, now we can identify and reduce them to increase performance, productivity and positivity!

Karen Dempsey, Head of HR UK & Ireland for Air France KLM

Get Productive! is a powerful, practical toolkit for a complex, fast changing world. It coaches in a holistic and integrated way, seeking balance in everything that matters. Written by a master practitioner and based on proven experience in real businesses, I am using techniques from Get Productive! both personally and with my team to deliver results.

Jon Tucker, Operating Officer, Imperial College Business School

Whatever you strive for in life, you are far more likely to achieve if you can use your time, your skills and your energy more effectively. Magdalena is a master at focusing ambitions, refining aspirations and making each re-energised step feel both possible and thrilling. Get Productive! distils her considerable insights and expertise in an easy-to-use format which will be a huge help in whatever you aspire to do. What shines through the book is that many of the obstacles that lie in our path are of our own imagining, and with this book in our hand, that need no longer be the case.

Rob Hopkins, Transition Network and Author of The Transition Companion

Packed full of practical, insightful exercises, supercharging your energy to power through any productivity roadblocks.

Guy Browning, The Guardian

This edition first published 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bak-Maier, Magdalena, 1977

Get productive! : boosting your productivity and getting things done / Magdalena Bak-Maier.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-85708-346-3 (pbk.)

1. Labor productivity. 2. Performance. 3. Time management. 4. Organizational effectiveness. I. Title.

HD57.B28 2012

650.1'1dc23

2012022699

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-857-08346-3 (pbk) ISBN 978-0-857-08343-2 (ebk)

ISBN 978-0-857-08344-9 (ebk) ISBN 978-0-857-08345-6 (ebk)

This book is dedicated to those who value and commit to showing up in life with authenticity, courage and passion, those who want to share their skills/gifts with the world and to my parents.

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