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The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
Productivity, Rituals | 13 COMMENTS | May 24, 2011
"How can I get 7-8 hours of sleep when I'm with my kids from the moment I arrive home, and I need some time for myself before bed?" "How can I find time to exercise when I have to get up early in the morning and I'm exhausted by the time I get home in the evening?" "How can I possibly keep up when I get 200 emails a day?" "When is there time to think reflectively and strategically?"
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Tony Schwartz
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The Power of Deceptive Simplicity
Mental Needs, Productivity | 2 COMMENTS | April 25, 2011
Most people who give advice for a living either offer too much or too little. What moves me most is deceptive simplicity. By that, I mean ideas that may seem obvious at first blush, but whose accessibility turns out to be the product of rigorous thinking, skillful synthesizing, and a commitment to clarity. I say this because so many of us are so busy and so barraged by information that we're reaching a point of saturation. There's just not much room left in our working memories to deeply absorb anything truly new or complex.
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Tony Schwartz
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Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity
Emotional Needs, Mental Needs, Physical Needs, Productivity | 1 COMMENTS | September 7, 2010
It's Labor Day in the U.S. as I write this post. To my own amazement, I've spent most of the past month truly relaxing — reading lots of books, playing tennis, running, hanging out with my family and eating food I mostly shouldn't — scones and donuts for breakfast, BLTs and burgers for lunch. I enjoyed every minute of it.
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Tony Schwartz
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Tony Schwartz on The Kathleen Show
Productivity | COMMENTS | August 4, 2010
It would be safe to say that most radio hosts probably don’t read guests' books in their entirety before an interview.  But it was clear in Tony’s recent interview with Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, host of The Kathleen Show, that she not only read The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, but also deeply reflected on the book.    
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Emily Pines
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The Crash You Can Avoid
Mental Needs, Productivity, Technology | 1 COMMENTS | July 20, 2010
We live in a world that defines "more, bigger faster" as invariably better. It's an ethic that places the greatest value on companies that offer ever more products and services, and generate ever higher profits. It's an ethic that rewards and prizes people who work the longest hours, move at the highest speeds, take the least downtime, and juggle the most tasks at the same time. But it's also an ethic that can survive and prosper only so long as capacity — the planet's resources and our own — exceeds the demand we make on it.
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Tony Schwartz
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