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Daniel Brooks

Essentialism

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From Ann Handley, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Everybody Writes, comes a smart, timely, clear-eyed guide to knowing when to speed up, when to slow down, and when the shortcut costs more than it saves. You already know how to go fast. What nobody taught you is when not to. In ASAP: As SLOW As Possible, Ann Handley rebels against the false urgency baked into modern work and life—and shows you how to recognize Slowments: the moments when slowing down is not weakness, hesitation, or delay. It's the smarter move. Because when everyone has access to the same shortcuts, the real edge is knowing when not to take them. With research, brain science, vivid storytelling, and Handley’s signature wit, ASAP: As SLOW As Possible reveals the hidden speed traps that weaken our judgment, creativity, and original thinking—especially in an age when AI makes the fastest path feel like the smartest one—and gives you a practical way to know when speed is serving you and when it’s taking you farther from what matters. You'll discover: <ul><li>The Hasty Progress Illusion—why motion can feel like mastery, even when nothing lasting is taking hold</li><li>The ASAP Matrix—how to know exactly when to autopilot, when to pause, and when a moment deserves more of you</li><li>The six Slowments in life and in work—the pivotal moments when slowing down changes what happens next</li><li>How to protect your judgment in a world eager to outsource it</li><li>When choosing analog leads to sharper ideas, wiser decisions, more creative approaches, stronger relationships, and meaningful work</li><li>How to stop confusing speed with progress—and start choosing the pace the moment actually requires</li></ul> ASAP: As SLOW As Possible reveals slowness as a generative force and for the first time gives you a way to harness life’s most important slow moments. Not by doing less, opting out, or becoming the kind of person who ferments things in a shed. But by knowing when speed helps—and when it hollows out the very thing you hoped it would serve. It’s time to choose the long road when the shortcut costs too much.

From Ann Handley, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Everybody Writes, comes a smart, timely, clear-eyed guide to knowing when to speed up, when to slow down, and when the shortcut costs more than it saves. You already know how to go fast. What nobody taught you is when not to. In ASAP: As SLOW As Possible, Ann Handley rebels against the false urgency baked into modern work and life—and shows you how to recognize Slowments: the moments when slowing down is not weakness, hesitation, or delay. It's the smarter move. Because when everyone has access to the same shortcuts, the real edge is knowing when not to take them. With research, brain science, vivid storytelling, and Handley’s signature wit, ASAP: As SLOW As Possible reveals the hidden speed traps that weaken our judgment, creativity, and original thinking—especially in an age when AI makes the fastest path feel like the smartest one—and gives you a practical way to know when speed is serving you and when it’s taking you farther from what matters. You'll discover: <ul><li>The Hasty Progress Illusion—why motion can feel like mastery, even when nothing lasting is taking hold</li><li>The ASAP Matrix—how to know exactly when to autopilot, when to pause, and when a moment deserves more of you</li><li>The six Slowments in life and in work—the pivotal moments when slowing down changes what happens next</li><li>How to protect your judgment in a world eager to outsource it</li><li>When choosing analog leads to sharper ideas, wiser decisions, more creative approaches, stronger relationships, and meaningful work</li><li>How to stop confusing speed with progress—and start choosing the pace the moment actually requires</li></ul> ASAP: As SLOW As Possible reveals slowness as a generative force and for the first time gives you a way to harness life’s most important slow moments. Not by doing less, opting out, or becoming the kind of person who ferments things in a shed. But by knowing when speed helps—and when it hollows out the very thing you hoped it would serve. It’s time to choose the long road when the shortcut costs too much.

When to Take the Long Road in a Shortcut World

ASAP: As Slow as Possible

Essential guidance for navigating the modern workplace and mastering the communication styles needed to advance at each stage of your career.

Mastering the Invisible Shifts That Shape Your Career

The Five Stages of Career Growth

THIS IS A PAPERBACK EDITION FOR THE EXPORT MARKET. From the bestselling author of Rejection Proof, a guide to achieving your goals—the easy way—for anyone who struggles with distractions, disorganization, and discipline. Most people think that because great achievements are difficult, they must also feel difficult. But great accomplishments are rarely achieved through mental toughness. Rather, the most successful people find ways to make hard actions repeatable and enjoyable. Drawing on stories from his own battles with ADHD and procrastination, as well as twelve epic stories from history and pop culture, bestselling author Jia Jiang outlines the four principles of Easy Discipline—Enjoyment, Artistry, Systems, and Yourself—so you can take hard actions on a consistent basis, and love your work in the process. Each principle offers a mindset of Easy Discipline, as well as powerful, practical tools to turn mindset into action. You’ll learn: -How to harness the power of the One Action Goal system—and why it’s the only system you’ll ever need -Why “Changing the Game” can turn dreaded tasks into energizing pursuits -How to curate your media consumption to educate and inspire you toward your goal, the way developers fine-tune AI machines -How to create an “Inspiration Index” that concretely ties your efforts (inputs) to measurable outputs -Why “Repetition with Variation” is the key to success A love letter to ambitious people everywhere who are disorganized, undisciplined, and distracted, Easy Discipline will give you the mindsets and tools to turn flaws into assets, obstacles into stepstones, and dreams into realities. Work can be fun. Focus can be automatic. And success can be easy.

An Unconventional Way to Achieve Ambitious Things

Easy Discipline

The Time We Tell: Mastering Time Management, Building Resilience, and Living Curious Stories is more than a guide-it's a companion for anyone ready to reclaim their days and live with purpose. Through seventeen engaging chapters, this book blends practical strategies with soulful reflections, teaching readers how to manage time without losing themselves, build resilience in the face of life's challenges, and cultivate curiosity that keeps every day fresh and meaningful.
Instead of rigid formulas, it offers human-centered wisdom: the courage to say no, the discipline of small wins, the beauty of silence, and the joy of imperfection. Each chapter reads like a conversation with a trusted mentor, weaving together lessons on productivity, resilience, and curiosity into a narrative that feels both practical and inspiring.
Whether you're a professional seeking focus, a student striving for balance, or a dreamer longing for deeper meaning, this book will help you design a life that is not just efficient, but extraordinary. It's not about racing against the clock-it's about telling better stories with the time you have.

The Time We Tell, Mastering Time Management, Building Resilience, and Living Curious Stories

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies--the United States and China--have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change. By examining key historical moments--from the rise of the steam engine to the dawn of AI--Frey shows why technological shifts have shaped, and sometimes destabilized, entire civilizations. He explores why some leading technological powers of the past--such as Song China, the Dutch Republic, and Victorian Britain--ultimately lost their innovative edge, why some modern nations such as Japan had periods of rapid growth followed by stagnation, and why planned economies like the Soviet Union collapsed after brief surges of progress. Frey uncovers a recurring tension in history: while decentralization fosters the exploration of new technologies, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. When institutions fail to adapt to technological change, stagnation inevitably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy can nations innovate and grow over the long term--findings that have worrying implications for the United States, Europe, China, and other economies today. Through a rich narrative that weaves together history, economics, and technology, How Progress Ends reveals that managing the future requires us to draw the right lessons from the past.

Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

How Progress Ends

Reality Check

REALITY CHECK: CHRONOS

You don't need another productivity hack.
You need to stop giving your time away like it's worthless.

This book isn't about time management.
It's about time awareness.

How you spend it.
Who you give it to.
And whether the life you're building is actually one you want to live.

In Reality Check: CHRONOS, you strip away the noise and get honest about your habits, your priorities, and the patterns you default to.

Not theory. Not motivation.
Just clear audits you can actually run.

Stop chasing someone else's definition of success and start designing your own.

This is an audit of your hours, your money, your emotional energy, and your decisions, the trades you make every day without noticing.

Because your life isn't measured in years.
It's measured in presence.

Every scroll, every excuse, every delay costs you.

Time is the currency.
You are the investment.
The return is built, one decision at a time.

Spend wisely.

CHRONOS - A Field Guide to Stop Trading Your Life for Things You Don't Need

Rate every task from 0 to 10 to reclaim your strategic focus The average professional is interrupted every eleven minutes and spends more than half the workday reacting rather than leading. In The 0-10 Rule: A Simple System for Laser Focus in a World of Overload, behavioral scientist Dr. Michelle Rozen, PhD, introduces a framework rooted in clinical psychology that converts subjective judgment into structured decision-making, helping leaders prioritize what truly moves the needle. The 0-10 Rule asks leaders to rate every task, decision, and commitment on a scale of 0 to 10 based on strategic impact. Items scoring 9 or 10 receive full attention and resources; everything below 7 gets delegated, deferred, or dropped. The framework scales from individual contributors to C-suite executives and entire organizations, delivering faster decisions, reduced burnout, and higher engagement. Readers will also discover: <ul> <li>A structured scoring method that replaces reactive urgency with deliberate, impact-driven prioritization across every level of leadership</li> <li>Techniques for protecting cognitive bandwidth so leaders can focus energy on high-value work that drives measurable results</li> <li>Strategies for delegating and deferring low-impact tasks without losing accountability or dropping critical organizational commitments</li> <li>A scalable framework designed to work for individual contributors, cross-functional teams, and enterprise-wide leadership development programs</li> <li>Research-backed insights drawn from behavioral science and tested with leaders at organizations including Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and Kaiser Permanente</li> </ul> Written for mid-to-senior level executives, project managers, entrepreneurs, and HR leaders, and anyone who is ready to ruthlessly prioritize under pressure without burning out or giving up, The 0-10 Rule provides the structured clarity needed to stop reacting to noise and start directing attention toward the work that delivers strategic outcomes.

A Science-Backed System for Laser Focus in a Busy World

The 0-10 Rule

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An indispensable guide to help women reclaim hours in their day by overcoming the Four 4P’s—People Pleasing, Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Padding—from the acclaimed author of The Myth of the Nice Girl. “A liberating reframing of time in a culture that equates busyness with worth.”—Jennifer B. Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of Mattering and Never Enough Women often carry a different kind of time load—one that adds up in ways that aren’t always visible but deeply felt. Often, these responsibilities cause us to fall prey to what Fran Hauser calls “The 4 P’s”—people-pleasing, perfectionism, procrastination, and (time) padding. Whether it’s saying yes when you know you don’t have the bandwidth, rewriting an email for the tenth time, or sitting through meetings that go nowhere, these patterns chip away at our hours, leaving less time for what truly matters. But when we start paying attention to these habits, we begin to change our relationship with time. In Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour, Hauser shows professional women how to embrace a “twenty-minute mindset” to create more time and space for themselves and their most meaningful work. This mindset helps us break free from the 4 P’s, stop over-rotating and make progress in less time than we think we need. Drawing on Hauser’s decades of executive experience—and stories from successful women such as Sprinkles Founder Candace Nelson and Journalist Danielle Robay— Twenty Minutes is the New Hour is equal parts accessible and actionable. You’ll come away with important tools, including: <ul><li>The secret recipe for getting an effective meeting done in 20 minutes</li><li>A messy action mindset to help you start (and keep going)</li><li>Ways to streamline projects and negotiations that have become overly complex</li><li>Frameworks for nailing high-stakes conversations without overthinking</li><li>A simple weekly practice to create space on your calendar</li></ul> Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour is the antidote to our always-on, overworked world and a fresh take on productivity. The goal isn’t to do more. It’s to focus on what matters—and feel good about how you’re doing it.

An indispensable guide to help women reclaim hours in their day by overcoming the Four 4P’s—People Pleasing, Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Padding—from the acclaimed author of The Myth of the Nice Girl. “A liberating reframing of time in a culture that equates busyness with worth.”—Jennifer B. Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of Mattering and Never Enough Women often carry a different kind of time load—one that adds up in ways that aren’t always visible but deeply felt. Often, these responsibilities cause us to fall prey to what Fran Hauser calls “The 4 P’s”—people-pleasing, perfectionism, procrastination, and (time) padding. Whether it’s saying yes when you know you don’t have the bandwidth, rewriting an email for the tenth time, or sitting through meetings that go nowhere, these patterns chip away at our hours, leaving less time for what truly matters. But when we start paying attention to these habits, we begin to change our relationship with time. In Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour, Hauser shows professional women how to embrace a “twenty-minute mindset” to create more time and space for themselves and their most meaningful work. This mindset helps us break free from the 4 P’s, stop over-rotating and make progress in less time than we think we need. Drawing on Hauser’s decades of executive experience—and stories from successful women such as Sprinkles Founder Candace Nelson and Journalist Danielle Robay— Twenty Minutes is the New Hour is equal parts accessible and actionable. You’ll come away with important tools, including: <ul><li>The secret recipe for getting an effective meeting done in 20 minutes</li><li>A messy action mindset to help you start (and keep going)</li><li>Ways to streamline projects and negotiations that have become overly complex</li><li>Frameworks for nailing high-stakes conversations without overthinking</li><li>A simple weekly practice to create space on your calendar</li></ul> Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour is the antidote to our always-on, overworked world and a fresh take on productivity. The goal isn’t to do more. It’s to focus on what matters—and feel good about how you’re doing it.

The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Doing Less and Achieving More

Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today’s complex world and building a meaningful, successful career and life—no matter where you start out—from the bestselling author and cofounder of Axios and Politico. Jim VandeHei’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot. Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism.&nbsp; VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism. He took notes every step of the way. And in Just the Good Stuff, his debut as a solo author, VandeHei writes the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was floundering—not a compendium of conventional wisdom but a real-world guide to achieving that other “good stuff,” health, wealth, happiness, all the blessings and exquisite pleasures we loosely group under that oft used but still under-appreciated rubric—success.&nbsp; Delivered in his hallmark no-word-wasted style, VandeHei offers essential, no-BS guidance on how to handle everything from finding a calling to building a team to navigating the realities of a changing workplace, showing us that no matter how inauspicious our beginnings, no matter how far down the ladder we begin, no matter what kind of challenges we face, a fulfilling life is within our reach.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today’s complex world and building a meaningful, successful career and life—no matter where you start out—from the bestselling author and cofounder of Axios and Politico. Jim VandeHei’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot. Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism.&nbsp; VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism. He took notes every step of the way. And in Just the Good Stuff, his debut as a solo author, VandeHei writes the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was floundering—not a compendium of conventional wisdom but a real-world guide to achieving that other “good stuff,” health, wealth, happiness, all the blessings and exquisite pleasures we loosely group under that oft used but still under-appreciated rubric—success.&nbsp; Delivered in his hallmark no-word-wasted style, VandeHei offers essential, no-BS guidance on how to handle everything from finding a calling to building a team to navigating the realities of a changing workplace, showing us that no matter how inauspicious our beginnings, no matter how far down the ladder we begin, no matter what kind of challenges we face, a fulfilling life is within our reach.

No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)

Just the Good Stuff

Volume 38 of Advances in Management Accounting uses a variety of methods, from experiments and case studies to surveys, to build upon existing knowledge within the management accounting discipline. Containing a diverse range of authors from around the world, this publication focuses on theoretically sound and practical research which has a cutting-edge and wide-reaching appeal to academics and practitioners. 
Showcasing methods of and analysis on varied statistical testing and performance measurement models, this edited collection will appeal to both management accounting academics and professionals. Topics analysed include the effects and significance of statistical testing, the limits and goals of such testing and modelling, compensation moderation, and how to handle ethical issues affecting management accounting. 
Advances in Management Accounting (AIMA) publishes thought-provoking volumes that advance knowledge in the management accounting discipline and are of interest to both academics and practitioners. The series seeks thoughtful, well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting, broadly defined. AIMA seeks to publish commentaries on research methodology and new management accounting areas of interest as well as papers using research methods including survey research, field tests, case studies, experiments, meta-analyses, and modelling.

Advances in Management Accounting

Too young to retire, too vital to stand still, too experienced to start from scratch? Welcome to your Bonus Years. Increased longevity has gifted us fifteen-to-twenty extra active, healthy working years, shattering the traditional linear career script of learning, working, and retiring. In The Bonus Years, the world's leading expert on career transition, and London Business School Professor Herminia Ibarra, delivers the definitive, social-science-backed resource for navigating later-career transformation. Ibarra reveals that thriving in an extended work life requires abandoning the old linear, plan-and-implement strategies. Instead, successful reinvention comes through 'resourceful discovery' - a disciplined process of active experimentation, trying on new futures, and knowing when to adjust your course. Whether change has arrived uninvited through an industry shock, or a quiet internal restlessness is telling you it's time to let go, this book provides the actionable tools to build transition mastery and successfully map your path forward. Filled with rich and varied case studies of professionals who reinvented themselves across the globe, The Bonus Years is an empowering manifesto for anyone who refuses to stand still. It is proof that to bloom late is not to bloom less - it is to bloom with deeper roots, on your own terms.

Your Next Chapter in Life and Work

The Bonus Years

An essential how-to guidebook for building new companies based on deep technology. Launching from the Lab provides a much-needed framework for new entrepreneurs who are founding companies based on “deep technology”—groundbreaking innovations rising from new discoveries in fundamental research. Lita Nelsen and Maureen Stancik Boyce cover the steps to launch and fund such companies, beginning with emergence from the laboratory and acquiring intellectual property through the intensive research of customer needs, building a team, and raising capital. Designed to be read and then used chapter by chapter, this book covers every step of the entrepreneur’s journey. From the lab, to the intensive research of customer needs, and through building a team and raising capital, this guidebook covers topics ranging from the importance of patents to forecasting financial data. The authors also include a special section on IP and dealing with tech transfer offices, for founders launching from university laboratories. Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur or a university researcher ready to commercialize your work, this book is an indispensable companion for turning breakthrough science into real-world impact.

An essential how-to guidebook for building new companies based on deep technology. Launching from the Lab provides a much-needed framework for new entrepreneurs who are founding companies based on “deep technology”—groundbreaking innovations rising from new discoveries in fundamental research. Lita Nelsen and Maureen Stancik Boyce cover the steps to launch and fund such companies, beginning with emergence from the laboratory and acquiring intellectual property through the intensive research of customer needs, building a team, and raising capital. Designed to be read and then used chapter by chapter, this book covers every step of the entrepreneur’s journey. From the lab, to the intensive research of customer needs, and through building a team and raising capital, this guidebook covers topics ranging from the importance of patents to forecasting financial data. The authors also include a special section on IP and dealing with tech transfer offices, for founders launching from university laboratories. Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur or a university researcher ready to commercialize your work, this book is an indispensable companion for turning breakthrough science into real-world impact.

Building a Deep-Tech Startup

Launching from the Lab

Essentialism

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