Extreme Productivity - Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

INTRODUCTION

People often ask me how I get so much done. During most of the last five years, I’ve held two full-time jobs—serving as full-time chairman of MFS Investment Management and carrying a full teaching load at Harvard Business School. I’ve also served on the governing boards of two publicly traded companies (Medtronic and Nielsen), a health care foundation (the Commonwealth Fund), and a medical research center (the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center). At the same time, I’ve managed to write three books (including this one) and publish roughly a hundred articles in newspapers and magazines. Through all this, I’ve maintained a strong relationship with my wife of thirty-five years and our two children, as well as a wide network of friends and ...