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Oct 8, 2024 11:22 PM

Author:Jake Knapp,John Zeratsky

Make Time

'If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.' - Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

'Make Timeis essential reading for anyone who wants to create a happier, more successful life.' - Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

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Most of our time is spent by default. We all wish for more hours in the day. We all struggle to make time for what matters. Help is here.

Productivity experts Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky have created a four-step framework that anyone can use, packed with more than 80 tactics to help you design your day around the things that matter. Tactics such as:

· Choose a daily highlight

· Be the boss of your phone

· Stay out of social media infinity pools

· Slow your inbox

· Make TV a 'sometimes treat'

· Exercise every day (but don't be a hero)

· Eat without screens

· Go off grid

· Spend time with your tribe

· Make your bedroom a bed room

With tips and tricks to help you change your life, it's time to stop daydreaming about projects and activities that you'll get to 'someday', and start that someday today.

Reviews

As someone obsessed with time and how to spend it wisely, I loved this fun and useful book. Not your normal productivity fare.

—— Ev Williams, founder of Medium and Twitter

Make Time is a charming manifesto - as well as an intrepid do-it-yourself guide to building smart habits that stick. If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.

—— Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

Too often, we get bogged down in the demands of each day and struggle to find time for what really matters. In this powerful book, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky explain how small changes in the design of our days can give us more time for the people and activities that energize and fulfil us. Make Time is essential reading for anyone who wants to create a happier, more successful life.

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Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project andThe Four Tendencies

I defy you to read this book and not come away with ideas that make you happier and/or more effective in accomplishing what you want in life. It's smart, entertaining and packed with field-tested insights.

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Dan Heath, bestselling co-author of The Power of Moments and Switch

Time is the single biggest ingredient for creative work. Time to focus, time to experiment, time to master creative skills. Make Time provides ways for each of us to find new reserves of that precious commodity. It is an excellent guidebook for taking control of the design of your life.

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Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and author of Change by Design

Make Time is practical and engaging, offering tips on everything from designing your day to the benefits of cutting out cable news and eschewing plane Wi-Fi in favour of time away from work.'

—— Harvard Business Review

A unique and engaging read about a proven habit framework [that] readers can apply to each day.

—— Insider, Best Books to Form New Habits

This is a very timely, thoughtful and readable book as views on future technologies range from wild optimism to abject fear. The book makes rational arguments about why and how technological advances can be deployed sensibly for wide benefit, to businesses, their employers and customers and to wider society.

—— Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, FRS, FRSB, FMedSci, President & Vice-Chancellor, The University of Manchester

Read this book and pause for thought. It sets out a vision for business which entrepreneurs can readily sign up to, with a promise of commercial and social gain for many, not the few. Authority comes from it being written by a man who’s been there and done it. This has to be on your to-do list.

—— Emma Jones, Founder, Enterprise Nation

Is your business changing at a rate and scale like never before? Are existing norms and best practices increasingly not up to the task of dealing with today’s challenges? Then it’s time to reboot and I can think of no person better placed to help than Jason Stockwood. Enlightened. Inspiring. And importantly, full of compassion and humanity. Reboot is the modern-day playbook for people in business today, who also want to be there tomorrow, too.

—— Steve Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Yes! Secrets from the Science of Persuasion

At a time where we are debating the future of work and the impact technology will have on jobs, Reboot is a timely reminder for us all of our need to revisit our fundamental approach to business and leadership. Jason highlights the need to provide greater autonomy for employees, experimentation and flexibility in order to thrive in the modern age. He showcases how business, if stewarded appropriately, can be a force for good. This requires a shift in our collective focus on the pursuit of short-term shareholder gains to a more long-term sustainable perspective, recognising our collective responsibility to wider society and the environment. “Business as usual” is no longer an option; it’s time for a reboot.

—— Rajeeb Dey MBE, Founder & CEO, Learnerbly

An antidote to dystopian and dated ideas about tech and leadership, Reboot is a playbook for positive deviance.

—— Lea Simpson, Co-founder, Brink

Jason paints a brilliantly vivid portrait of what a tech business can become when the good of people – whether customers, employees or suppliers – is at the heart of its thinking. It is a story that dispels fear. With disarming frankness he describes his own leadership journey, and celebrates the power of experimentation and the lessons that only come from failing. The hope and excitement the book conveys comes from the lived example of Simply Business, a powerful illustration that there is another way for business to be, apart from the dominant model of the last 40 years. And that business and society can both gain by the creation of highly successful tech business which put, meeting true human needs at the heart of their purpose.

—— Charles Wookey, CEO, Blueprint for Better Business

Packed full of real-world examples and lessons, this book is a must-read for anyone aspiring to be a better business leader and enhance the impact of technology on their business productivity, performance and culture.

—— Debbie Wosskow OBE, Co-Founder, AllBright

In a rapidly changing world, no one has all the answers, but we all need to be thinking about the workforce of the future. Jason Stockwood’s voice on the topic is important, and I applaud his innovative thinking and creative approach to experimentation.

—— Alan Schnitzer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Reboot kickstarts the movement for a positive outlook on change in the practice and meaning of work. Packed full of insight and anecdotes, it’s written in the wonderfully authentic voice of a business leader who clearly also has a life.

—— MT Rainey OBE, Advertising Founder

Jason Stockwood is one of the most people-focused CEOs in the UK

—— HR Magazine

Jason Stockwood was behind the success of several internet firms including Lastminute.com and Match.com

—— City AM

Great thinking … regarding the role of business in society

—— Brendan McCafferty, CEO of AXA Insurance
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