Book description
Dr. Piers Steel is an internationally recognised expert on human motivation and the foremost authority on why people put things off. A professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, he’s spent the last ten years studying procrastination and the decades before that embodying it
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- About the author
- The Procrastination Equation
- Table of Contents
- Author’s note
- 1 Portrait of a procrastinator
- 2 The Procrastination Equation
- 3 Wired for Procrastination
- 4 Procrastinations
- 5 The Personal Price of Procrastination
- 6 The Economic Cost of Procrastination
- 7 Optimising Optimism
- 8 Love it or Leave it
- 9 In Good Time
- 10 Making it Work
- Postscript: Procrastination’s Chapter 11
- A step-by-step guide to getting things done
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes
- Index
- Imprint
Product information
- Title: The Procrastination Equation, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2012
- Publisher(s): Pearson Education
- ISBN: 9780273767725
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