Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

The importance of achieving deep focus goes beyond your own productivity. Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, harness your emotions, and find greater workplace fulfillment.

Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life’s everyday worries. This book explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team’s attention, and break the cycle of distraction.

This volume includes the work of:

Daniel Goleman

Heidi Grant

Amy Jen Su

Rasmus Hougaard

HBR’s Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review . Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.