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Why This Book Matters:
Smarter Faster Better is the work of NY Times best-selling author and journalist Charles Duhigg. He uses his personal experiences and business research to tell the readers how productivity is not limited to only managing a to-do list but making the right decisions at the right times.
The Big Takeaways:
- Make choices to stay motivated and focused on reaching your long-term goals.
- If According to Columbia University research, when people are more in control of their choices, they tend to succeed more at achieving long-term goals.
- Keep space open for distractions whenever pursuing a goal.
- Anything can happen at any time, taking your attention from your goals. The best way to deal is to be prepared for this.
- “Commitment Culture” in terms of trust and emotional relations helps people and their overall business success.
- Companies that care most about their values and connectedness rather than high-headedness tend to succeed more.
- Providing your team with a sense of safety and value can help them achieve wonders.
- Google’s Project Aristotle spent two years to find out how to make average teams achieve great results. They found out that a sense of safety and value is of utmost importance for team members.
- Using ancient concepts in novel ways is as fruitful as inventing a completely new idea.
- Two researchers at Northwestern University in 2011 analyzed 17.9 million academic papers and found out that the most innovative ideas are already established concepts approached in new ways.
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