Your 7-Day Fast-Track to Becoming a Workplace MVP

Day 1 is about gaining control. Before you can be effective, you need a system to manage the chaos. This book gives you the foundational 'GTD' methodology to get organized and clear your mind for high-value work. This is ground zero.

After getting organized yesterday, you now need to focus. This book is the essential guide to protecting your time and attention for the kind of concentrated work that actually creates value. It's the antidote to a distracted workplace.

Now that you can focus your time with Deep Work, you need to focus that energy on the right things. This book provides a practical, 4-step process to improve the quality of your decisions, which is the core of all effective work.

With your decision-making skills sharpened, you now need to get buy-in from others. This book is the tactical guide to communicating your ideas effectively, especially when the stakes are high. This skill is how you turn good decisions into group action.

After mastering communication yesterday, this book gives you a tool for flawless execution. It's a simple but powerful argument for using checklists to manage complexity and ensure your team gets things right every time.

Now that you have a tool for execution, you need the right team environment. This book is the blueprint for creating a highly effective team culture. It’s the secret to making a group of individuals more effective than the sum of their parts.

For our finale, we zoom out to strategy. After a week of improving your personal and team effectiveness, this book reveals the principles that make entire organizations effective in the long run. It’s the capstone for thinking like a true leader.