Someone truly driven and successful is often obsessive and compulsive about making their products, service, or company perfect. They demand to know how & when improvements can be made.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.

The biggest risk to productivity is always the same: working on the wrong thing.

Many people care more about being right than being happy.

Constantly trying to do more things — instead of the right things — leads to more stress, poorer quality of work, and lower productivity.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

The relentless overload that’s wearing us down is generated by a belief that ‘good’ work requires increasing busyness — faster responses to email and chats, more meetings, more tasks, more hours.

Perfection is not optional.

Someone truly driven and successful is often obsessive and compulsive about making their products, service, or company perfect. They demand to know how & when improvements can be made.

The trouble is that most people want to
be right. The very best people, however,
want to know if they’re right

The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.

Here is the #1 myth that kills people's productivity: 'if you fit it all in, you can have it all.'