Productivity and Habits
Attention, focus, routines, habit change, time management and the broader self-improvement shelf. Read by people trying to get more of the right work done and to change how they behave.
218 books
Books 218
Peter F. Drucker · 1967 · OL lists as 'Effective Executive'
T2 Kaizen
Masaaki Imai · 1986 · The book that introduced continuous improvement to Western managers.
Stephen Covey, Stephen R. Covey · 1989 · The best-known framework for personal effectiveness and priority setting
T2 Mastery
Robert Greene · 2012 · Robert Greene's synthesis of mastery across domains applies directly to the musician's developmental arc: apprenticeship under someone further along, the creative-active phase of experimentation, and the intuitive mastery that eventually emerges. The profiles of Mozart and Coltrane anchor the abstract framework in musical specifics.
Charles Duhigg · 2012 · Habit loops in people and companies; why routines drive repeat purchase
Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott · 2016 · What longer lives do to savings, work and the products people buy.
Ray Dalio · 2017 · Insider: the founder's own statement of the management system.
Alfred LinNat EliasonAndrew LokenauthArianna HuffingtonAusten AllredBill GatesBryan JohnsonDavid CancelDoug McMillonDrew HoustonEric JorgensonHoward MarksJack DorseyJoel ConnollyKevin SystromMarc BenioffMark CubanMatt MullenwegMichael BatkoMichael BloombergNaval RavikantNick HuberNiki ScevakPatrick O'ShaughnessyRan SegallRay DalioReed HastingsTim FerrissTom BilyeuTony RobbinsZoë Foster Blake
T3 Mastery
George Leonard · 1991 · The plateau and long practice; mastery as a delayed reward
Cal Newport · 2012 · Career capital before passion; building rare and valuable skills
T3 Remote
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried · 2013
Ryan Holiday · 2019
Robert Kiyosaki, Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1990
Anthony Robbins · 1991
Julia Cameron · 1992
Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez · 1992 · Robin and Dominguez reframe the core question from 'how do I manage money?' to 'what is money exchanged for?' The life-energy accounting method they introduce is less a budgeting tool than a values-clarification exercise — one that makes the link between spending and identity concrete and trackable.
Steve Chandler · 2000
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan · 2001
Robert Kiyosaki, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter · 2002
Neuberger Berman, Heidi L. Steiger · 2002
Susan Ford Collins · 2003
Peter F. Drucker, Joseph A. Maciariello · with Joseph A. Maciariello · 2004
Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman · 2006 · The case that disorder is often more efficient than imposed order
Peter F. Drucker · 2008 · Short book reprinting his 1999 HBR article
Ramit Sethi · 2009 · Sethi's contribution to money psychology is behavioral rather than analytical: he designs financial systems that work with human laziness and inconsistency rather than against them. His argument that automation beats willpower as a financial strategy is well-supported by the literature on ego depletion and habit formation.
William J. Dawson · 2011 · Edwardian essay on living deliberately below your means
Roy F. Baumeister · 2011
Chade-Meng Tan · 2012
Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha · with Ben Casnocha · 2012
Timothy A Pychyl · 2013
Austin Kleon · 2014
Marie Kondō · 2014
James Clear · 2016
Ali AbdaalBalaji S. SrinivasanNat EliasonAna FabregaAndrew LokenauthAnthony PomplianoBiz StoneCal NewportCharlie Marie PrangleyGeorge HatzisIman GadzhiJordan HughesJustin KanKeith RaboisMel RobbinsNick HuberPieter LevelsSahil BloomSuperbook reading listsTerrance McArthurThe Rational WalkTim FerrissTrevor NcubeVinod Khosla
Whitney Tilson · 2021 · Open Library unreachable from this session; Lioncrest edition confirmed elsewhere.
Steven Pressfield
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Anna Lembke
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Greg McKeown
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Step (Perennial Library) by Edward de Bono
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George Leonard
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Gregory F. A. Pierce
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