Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity

“The Little Train That Died.” (“I know I can! I know I can! Heart attack! Heart attack! Oh, my God, the pain!

People who know how to self-motivate, according to studies, earn more money than their peers, report higher levels of happiness, and say they are more satisfied with their families, jobs, and lives.

Loyalty norms made them less effective.

Rather, productivity is about making certain choices in certain ways. The way we choose to see ourselves and frame daily decisions; the stories we tell ourselves, and the easy goals we ignore; the sense of community we build among teammates; the creative cultures we establish as leaders: These are the things that separate the merely busy from the g

we want to draw the unique brilliance out of everyone,” Michaels told me.

On the best teams, for instance, leaders encouraged people to speak up;

Second, the good teams tested as having “high average social sensitivity”—a fancy way of saying that the groups were skilled at intuiting how members felt based on their tone of voice,

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Psychological safety is a “shared belief, held by members of a team, that the group is a safe place for taking risks.